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authorMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2018-12-20 12:51:21 +0100
committerMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2018-12-20 12:51:21 +0100
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[kernel|tcp] Improve the linger option documentation
The documentation for the tcp linger option was somewhat obtuse. This has been improved upon by listing and describing the three basic alternatives. OTP-15491
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-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml33
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
index 104c698591..709ba8e8fd 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
@@ -1007,13 +1007,34 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<marker id="option-linger"></marker>
</item>
<tag><c>{linger, {true|false, Seconds}}</c></tag>
- <item>
+ <item>
<p>Determines the time-out, in seconds, for flushing unsent data
- in the <c>close/1</c> socket call. If the first component of
- the value tuple is <c>false</c>, the second is ignored. This
- means that <c>close/1</c> returns immediately, not waiting
- for data to be flushed. Otherwise, the second component is
- the flushing time-out, in seconds.</p>
+ in the <c>close/1</c> socket call. </p>
+ <p>The first component is if linger is enabled, the second component
+ is the flushing time-out, in seconds. There are 3 alternatives:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>{false, _}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>close/1 or shutdown/2 returns immediately,
+ not waiting for data to be flushed, with closing
+ happening in the background.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>{true, 0}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Aborts the connection when it is closed.
+ Discards any data still remaining in the send buffers
+ and sends RST to the peer.</p>
+ <p>This avoids TCP's TIME_WAIT state, but leaves open
+ the possibility that another "incarnation" of this connection
+ being created.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>{true, Time} when Time > 0</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>close/1 or shutdown/2 will not return until
+ all queued messages for the socket have been successfully
+ sent or the linger timeout (Time) has been reached.</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
</item>
<tag><c>{low_msgq_watermark, Size}</c></tag>
<item>