From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>,
Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: if backlog is 0, listening shall not be deactivated.
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:37:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114163729.3468d232@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496E0A73.9030903@hp.com>
> I will submit a requirest to change this behavior in the spec, but I am not
> terribly optimistic. This has been specified for a very long time and there
> might be applications taking advantage of the ability to shut listing off.
>
> At this time, let's leave this as is. A well written application should specify
> the listen backlog anyway, otherwise it's depending on the "may" language in the
> Posix spec and will not get consistent behavior across different systems.
Seems fair enough.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 9:42 Pierre Habouzit
2009-01-14 13:17 ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-01-14 13:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-14 13:36 ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-01-14 15:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-14 15:53 ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-01-14 16:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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