diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7 index 6c91f058b..2ce831c90 100644 --- a/man7/tcp.7 +++ b/man7/tcp.7 @@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ This option takes an as an argument. When the value is greater than 0, it specifies the maximum amount of time in milliseconds that transmitted -data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcibly close the +data may remain unacknowledged, or bufferred data may remain untransmitted +(due to zero window size) before TCP will forcibly close the corresponding connection and return .B ETIMEDOUT to the application.
