From 1942e41202aa5cc39dd8970ab62cd1b288277753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Enke Chen Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:19:46 -0800 Subject: 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 --- man7/tcp.7 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg