From 0098eed847516cc6760d961421c83527816e35ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rory Byrne <rory@nybek.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 20:34:24 +0100
Subject: Apply 'show_econnreset' socket option to send errors as well

Up till now all send errors have been translated into a generic
{error, closed}. This patch allows {error, econnreset} to be
returned on send errors when it is detected that the TCP peer
has sent an RST.
---
 lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src')

diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
index a364f9e0c9..4dd9e0e221 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
@@ -1056,7 +1056,10 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp
               active mode, the controlling process will receive a
               <c>{tcp_error, Socket, econnreset}</c> message
               before the usual <c>{tcp_closed, Socket}</c>, as is
-              the case for any other socket error.</p>
+              the case for any other socket error. Calls to
+              <seealso marker="gen_tcp#send/2">gen_tcp:send/2</seealso>
+              will also return <c>{error, econnreset}</c> when it
+              is detected that a TCP peer has sent an RST.</p>
             <p>A connected socket returned from
               <seealso marker="gen_tcp#accept/1">gen_tcp:accept/1</seealso>
               will inherit the <c>show_econnreset</c> setting from the
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