On Tue, 2003/01/14 at 02:51:03 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Martin Blapp wrote:
> > Can you commit this ? The fix looks appropriate, but the manpage should
> > also be changed to reflect the change.
> >
> > ERRORS
> > Listen() will fail if:
> >
> > [EBADF] The argument s is not a valid descriptor.
> > [ENOTSOCK] The argument s is not a socket.
> > [EOPNOTSUPP] The socket is not of a type that
> > supports the operation listen().
> > [EINVAL] Listen() has been already called on the socket.
> >
> > Any objections from others ?
>
> It seems to me that calling listen() on a socket to change the
> listen queue depth is a reasonable thing to do; this is true
> before it's bound, after it's bound, before listen() has been
> called on it, and after listen() has been called on it once (or
> more).
>
> Am I missing something here? Is there a good technical reason
> to not permit an application to change the listen queue depth?
> Or is there some way that an application can do this, using a
> call other than listen()?
>
> That it causes a panic when the SYN cache is enabled isn't really
> a technical reason, it's a circumstantial reason.
The manpage change does not reflect the change in the patch :)
It should be:
[EINVAL] The socket is connected.
- Thomas
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