Hello!
> Ah, but Stevens is (was, may he rest in peace) of the opinion that a
> linger time of 0 should send a RST, and a stack that did not do this
> was broken. (Mind you, having an application being able to send a RST
> is unreliable because such a RST is not retransmitted, which is the
> reason I always suspected Linux did not allow it -- but I would love
> to hear that said out loud (and in the comments) by the Linux network
> folk, given that Linux goes against the standard here.)
Linux goes against, because the Linux network folk either did not
read Stevens' books or read them not enough carefully. 8)
Actually, the feature did appear in 2.3, _BUT_ it was eaten only because
I honestly believed, that it is used only by a few of marginal applications,
sort of port scanners from bugtraq archives.
Shortly, the feature is useful, but only provided nobody uses it. 8)8)
This paradoxical conclusion explains why sleeping forever in linux-2.2
is not a bug really. Correct applications do not suffer.
Alexey Kuznetsov
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