Re: [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect failed

[Alexey Kuznetsov]

Hello!

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> Well I'm (I guess?) surprised that the --reject-with icmp doesn't do
> anything with a local outgoing connection

Yeah. This was "an obvious surpise": for local socket the first icmp error always
arrives on locked socket and gets dropped. I even forgot about this (tcp-reset
still works ok due to backlog) This makes the idea to respect error more attractive.

Alexey
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