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Re: [tcpm] poll for adoption of draft-ananth-persist-02

Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> Thu, 01 April 2010 19:53 UTC

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> There are other aspects too, it's also important for the application
> to control the duration that the connection spends in persist state,
> this is planned to be accomplished via a socket option. 

Why?

I mean, sure, an app may want to not let a connection hang around
forever.  But, can't it just ABORT whenever it wants?

allman

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