Re: TCP stack behaviour question

[Andi Kleen]

> Interestingly, at this point in the man pages source there
> is the following commented out text:

Yes that was me. On second thought I suppose I was right back then that this 
feature is too dubious to be documented. So better keep it
undocumented and drop the change.

-Andi

> 
> .\" FIXME . Is it a good idea to document that? It is a dubious feature.
> .\" On
> .\" .B SOCK_STREAM
> .\" sockets,
> .\" .I IP_RECVERR
> .\" has slightly different semantics. Instead of
> .\" saving the errors for the next timeout, it passes all incoming
> .\" errors immediately to the user.
> .\" This might be useful for very short-lived TCP connections which
> .\" need fast error handling. Use this option with care:
> .\" it makes TCP unreliable
> .\" by not allowing it to recover properly from routing
> .\" shifts and other normal
> .\" conditions and breaks the protocol specification.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
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