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

Tony Finch (dot@dotat.at)
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:24:49 +0000


Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>How close is TCP_NOPUSH to behaving identically to TCP_CORK now?

They are exactly the same.

>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.)

I wonder if it's a bit late for that now...

This reminds me to make sure that FreeBSD's Linux emulation supports
TCP_CORK properly.

Tony.

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