On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:19:38AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> Hi. There's a bug report from Martin Pool against manpages-dev suggesting
> the following paragraph from socket(7) is incorrect:
>
> SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO
> Specify the sending or receiving timeouts until reporting an
> error. They are fixed to a protocol specific setting in Linux
> and cannot be read or written. Their functionality can be emu-
> lated using alarm(2) or setitimer(2).
>
> He says:
>
> In fact, these options do seem to be at least partially implemented
> in Linux 2.4.20. You can at least set and retrieve a value against
> a socket, and it does seem to affect the (complex) network scheduling
> code.
It was correct when the manpage was written, but wasn't updated
later when option was implemented.
-Andi
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