Re: TCP_NOPUSH on FreeBSD, TCP_CORK on Linux (was: Is sendfile all that

[Dan Kegel]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > How close is TCP_NOPUSH to behaving identically to TCP_CORK now?
> > If it does behave identically, it might be time to standardize
> > the symbolic name for this option, to make apps more portable
> > between the two OS's.  (It'd be nice to also standardize the
> > numeric value, in the interest of making the ABI's more compatible, too.)
> 
> That one isnt practical because of the way the implementations handle
> boolean options. BSD uses bitmask based option setting for the basic
> options and Linus uses switch statements

OK, well, at least a common symbolic name could be chosen.
- Dan