Re: Notebooks

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:08:51 -0700


From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:05:08 +0100 (BST)

Shouldn't the FIN allocation/send be pushed to a timer in this case, try
every second until success ?

socket is locked, and we must do it from a user context so he goes to
sleep awaiting a free page, we can't return from the close until the
FIN gets allocated and is in the send queueing system...

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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