I think he was suggesting that the apps close the connection if they
receive no data from some amount of time. (Isn't this common sense?)
DS
> On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:30:31PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> > maybe we should fix our SERVER apps..
> > e.g. telnetd, sshd, etc. to have 1 week timeouts
>
> IIRC, it is not possible to specify how long the keepalive interval
> should be, using the socket interface. Do you suggest we add a new
> interface not present in other Unix implementations, or that we make
> SO_KEEPALIVE always have a one-week timeout, surprising the other
> applications that expect it to be faster?
>
> Both of these seem remarkably unappealing to me.
>
> Matt
>
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