Re: bug in 2.1.89 include/net/sock.h?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:20:43 +0000 (GMT)

> but I feel it is correct. Dave, do not forget also about
> those poor ppp guys; now device driven flow control does not work
> for tcp, which can be incorrect in some curcumstances.

Its far worse than that. The "device" may be an entire protocol stack with
a 128 frame window a 1K MTU and 80 bytes of headers... The original and
I consider valid theory was that the socket was charged from beginning to end
for that which it consumed.

Alan

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