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Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem?

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Tue, 06 November 2007 18:25 UTC

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MURALI BASHYAM wrote:
> In the spirit of keeping changes to TCP protocol minimal, how about
> having the application specify a time limit via the socket API when TCP gets into this
>  state and TCP cuts its indefinite wait down to this timeout? 

Why not set the timer in the application and ABORT or CLOSE the
connection when the timer goes off?

Joe


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