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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:37:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>
To: <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
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Subject: Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> Hello!
>
> > So the actual timeout would be 2 * SO_SNDTIMEO.
>
> It will timeout if write of some page blocks for SO_SNDTIMEO.

.. unless that page was partially written, in which case a short write
count is returned (rather than a timeout error), and the loop goes around
again.

> If transmission of any page never takes more than SO_SNDTIMEO it never
> times out.

Which is good, because SO_SNDTIMEO is an inactivity monitor.

Cheers
Chris

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