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TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 1, 2012 22:21 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services by pj
Parent article: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

I can't see a sensible way for connect(2) to determine if it should return ECONNREFUSED without that first SYN/ACK roundtrip. :)

(You'll note that sendmsg(), being intended for connectionless protocols, isn't documented as being able to return ECONNREFUSED either. I suspect this oversight will be rectified in due course.)

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TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 1, 2012 23:00 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (1 responses)

Just document that if you connect with the TCP_FASTOPEN flag you can potentially get ECONNREFUSED from whatever later call you use to write data to the socket.

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 2, 2012 22:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Quite. The set of errors in the manpages (and, indeed, in POSIX) is not a total set -- the kernel is allowed to return other errors, though it is perhaps unwise to expect callers to expect those errors.

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 1, 2012 23:11 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Well, connect could return EINPROGRESS if the option is used as it does for a non-blocking socket. That's a bit of a lie, though. :)