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| author | Enke Chen <enkechen2020@gmail.com> | 2021-01-08 21:19:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2021-01-20 13:12:19 +0100 |
| commit | 1942e41202aa5cc39dd8970ab62cd1b288277753 (patch) | |
| tree | 51cc1be086ed1ef1d2239981f4c2084a92c5f42a | |
| parent | a3377dcec66a96eb2ffeb999502b9a8ff2697bf4 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1942e41202aa5cc39dd8970ab62cd1b288277753.tar.gz | |
tcp.7: Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
mtk: Enke later noted that this patch provides better documentation
of longstanding behavior (rather documenting a change in behavior).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/tcp.7 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7 index 8b78cb6e19..cc08e3522a 100644 --- a/man7/tcp.7 +++ b/man7/tcp.7 @@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ This option takes an as an argument. When the value is greater than 0, it specifies the maximum amount of time in milliseconds that transmitted -data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcibly close the +data may remain unacknowledged, or bufferred data may remain untransmitted +(due to zero window size) before TCP will forcibly close the corresponding connection and return .B ETIMEDOUT to the application. |