Re: question about linux tcp request queue handling

Nivedita Singhvi writes:

Again, youre limiting the number of connnection requests
that are allowed to wait in the *accept* queue, where
we move to once we're ESTABLISHED.  You arent limiting
a request sitting in the SYN queue.

This statement is inconsistent with the description of this scenario in
Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated.  Specifically, continuing the handshake in the
TCP layer, i.e., sending a syn/ack and moving to the syn_recd state, is
incorrect if the limit of the server's socket backlog would be exceeded.
How do you account for this discrepancy between linux and other
berkeley-derived implementations?