Hello Enke (and Eric), Thank you for the patch. Is this a change in behavior, or a better documentation of longstanding behavior? Eric, do you have an Ack/Review for this patch? Thanks, Michael On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 06:21, Enke Chen <enkechen2020@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
