Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: provide SYN headers for passive connections

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On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 10:21 -0400, Eric B Munson wrote:

> The getsockopt() for TCP_SAVE_SYN doesn't offer much over returning 0
> from TCP_SAVED_SYN if the headers are not available. Why not collapse
> these into a single option?  If you need to track the difference between
> the headers are not avialable and should have been and the headers
> should not be available it can be done through error codes from
> getsockopt().

A single option is not good, because it adds confusion.

Note that we need to set the bit on any socket state, and doing this
with a single option is not very easy. ( You got this wrong in your
patch btw)




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