Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:36:02 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DECnet connect hang bugfix
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:11:57 +0100
Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com> wrote:

> This patch fixes a bug in the DECnet connect that seems to have been in 2.6 for
> a while now.
> 
> If a connection is rejected by a remote host (eg invalid access control, no
> such object etc) the Linux end hangs in connect() because it is only waiting for
> the socket to go into RUN state.
> 
> This patch sets the ECONNREFUSED error state on the socket when the connection
> is rejected to that the connect() exits it's wait loop and returns the error to
> the user.

Applied, thanks Patrick.

Could you please provide proper "Signed-off-by:" lines with
future DECNET patches?

Thanks a lot.
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