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From: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs•nl>
To: "H. Willstrand" <h.willstrand@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: sendfile()? Re: SO_LINGER dead: I get an immediate RST on 2.6.24?
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:45:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090111224541.GA10848@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <175f5a0f0901111408s7905e5d9l2155b841f1ac054d@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:08:16PM +0100, H. Willstrand wrote:
> > Is SO_LINGER a NOOP? Does it still do anything?
> This is the correct behavior according to RFC 2525, see section 2.17
> (there are an example).

Ah - very good, thank you. I'm trying to gather as much information as I can
before writing this all up. This should save netdev & the linux kernel
community a lot of email!

Is there any way to make sure there is no pending output data, so one can
safely call close(), and not get an RST-situation? 

Let me put it more succinctly. What I would very much like to have is what
Linux sendfile() offers in practice.

It appears that if one asks sendfile() to transmit a million bytes, it will
only return when the ACK for the millionth byte is in.

I know that TCP will never be fully fully reliable, but I would love to have
a way to know that the millionth byte was ACKed, or alternatively, that an
error prevented that.

>From what I've read so far, I think the POSIX functions don't offer this.
But does Linux? sendfile appears to get it right..

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-11 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-11 21:23 SO_LINGER dead: I get an immediate RST on 2.6.24? bert hubert
2009-01-11 22:08 ` H. Willstrand
2009-01-11 22:45   ` bert hubert [this message]
2009-01-11 22:54     ` sendfile()? " Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-11 23:08       ` bert hubert
2009-01-11 23:18         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12  4:50           ` Bill Fink
2009-01-12  9:18             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-01-13  5:31               ` Bill Fink
2009-02-13 17:02                 ` Jeremy Jackson
2009-02-20 18:10                   ` Bill Fink
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-13  6:32 Herbert Xu
2009-01-13  6:56 ` Bill Fink
2009-01-13  7:01   ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-14  7:43     ` Bill Fink
2009-01-14  8:29       ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-14  9:05         ` Bill Fink
2009-01-14 11:30           ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-15  6:33             ` Bill Fink
2009-01-13  7:06   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-14  8:05     ` Bill Fink
2009-01-14  8:08       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-14  8:32         ` Bill Fink

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