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| author | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2017-03-16 10:38:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2017-03-28 08:22:16 +0200 |
| commit | 1b4dedb155a4fe6faf35448c2d119e391204701a (patch) | |
| tree | 3d4f0074e5df6983bb55769b4dd03f5709e392f3 /lib/kernel/doc | |
| parent | 1cbc44aa05d4abf958e4bf7d5014668df3d98e90 (diff) | |
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kernel: Expand gen_tcp:close docs with send text
This commit attempts to clarify some of the guarantees given by
the TCP standard when issuing close. This is quite a complex
topic so there are probably corner cases still left, but this
at least tells the user that things can go wrong when doing
a close.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml | 2 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml index e97db20062..bef8096aed 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml @@ -140,6 +140,23 @@ do_recv(Sock, Bs) -> <fsummary>Close a TCP socket.</fsummary> <desc> <p>Closes a TCP socket.</p> + <p>Note that in most implementations of TCP, doing a <c>close</c> does + not guarantee that any data sent is delivered to the recipient before + the close is detected at the remote side. If you want to guarantee + delivery of the data to the recipient there are two common ways to + achieve this.</p> + <list type="ordered"> + <item><p>Use <seealso marker="#shutdown/2"> + <c>gen_tcp:shutdown(Sock, write)</c></seealso> to signal that + no more data is to be sent and wait for the read side of the + socket to be closed.</p> + </item> + <item><p>Use the socket option <seealso marker="inet#packet"> + <c>{packet, N}</c></seealso> (or something similar) to make + it possible for the receiver to close the connection when it + knowns it has received all the data.</p> + </item> + </list> </desc> </func> diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml index 4c4a5c39cb..36a99f7a7a 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code> </item> <tag><c>{packet, PacketType}</c>(TCP/IP sockets)</tag> <item> - <p>Defines the type of packets to use for a socket. + <p><marker id="packet"/>Defines the type of packets to use for a socket. Possible values:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>raw | 0</c></tag> |