Thread (47 messages) 47 messages, 5 authors, 2008-12-26

Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2008-12-26 02:38:46

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:00:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
So it all hinges on how the receiver updates his URG pointer.  This is
what legitimizes a sender advertising a changing URG pointer.
Pretty much.
So it works, but it isn't the nicest thing in the world :-)
It would've been nice and simple had the original implementors
strictly followed RFC793 and done the out-of-band notifications
instead of coming up with their fanciful notions of out-of-band
data :)

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