On 1/14/21 8:27 PM, Enke Chen wrote: > Hello Michael: > > It is the latter, better documentation of longstanding behavior. > > There is a bug, however, that broke the functionality two years ago. > The bug is being fixed. Thanks for the info, Enke. I've applied the patch. Cheers, Michael > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 01:08:26PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> 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/ -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
