On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 09:26 -0800, Yuchung Cheng wrote: > > > > Do you think there's a compelling reason for adding a new option or > > are you interested in a small patch to perform the change above ? > I like the proposal especially other stack also uses TCP_FASTOPEN > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738596(v=vs.85).aspx
Problem is that might break existing applications that were using TCP_FASTOPEN before a connect() (it was a NOP until now) I prefer we use a separate new option to be 100% safe, not adding regressions. Only new applications, tested, will use this new feature at their risk.