From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:13:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:13:44 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:55304 "HELO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:13:38 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:13:38 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: James Sutherland Cc: "David S. Miller" , Matti Aarnio , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN Message-ID: <20010126161338.N3849@marowsky-bree.de> In-Reply-To: <14961.33191.626833.945221@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.3i In-Reply-To: ; from "James Sutherland" on 2001-01-26T15:08:21 X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2001-01-26T15:08:21, James Sutherland said: > Obviously. The connection is now dead. However, trying to make a new > connection with different settings is perfectly reasonable. No. If connect() suddenly did two connection attempts instead of one, just how many timeouts might that break? > Why? The connection is dead, but there is nothing to prevent attempting > another connection. Right. And thats why connect() returns an error and retries are handled in userspace. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. -- J. Yahl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/