From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:38:37 -0800
> 1) We need transparency. If a third party kills a TCP connection then > the application should be informed of specifically that. This seems > easy enough to just pick an appropriate error number as I suggested. Agreed. > 2) We need constraints. This feature seems to be specific to a very > narrow use case. It is not at all clear to me if there are any > legitimate uses cases beyond Android, enabling this by default in the > stack creates a non-zero amount of risk and liability for abuse. It > seems like this should be an opt-in sort of feature, with a kernel > CONFIG or maybe opt-in per socket. And this will probably be the point of contention. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
