I'm filing this case for Gary as closed-approved-automatic, as it seems an
obvious extension to existing interface. As usual, speak up if you'd like
to see it promoted to a fasttrack.
liane
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tcp_keepalive For inetd Services
Gary Mills
08/27/2009
1. Summary
The inetd restarter defines a set of properties to control the behaviour
of the services it manages. This case adds the option `tcp_keepalive' to
the inetd restarter. Setting this option enables the TCP keepalive
facility for connections to services managed by inetd. It's needed
because some services do not have the ability to enable this facility by
themselves.
This property is set to false by default for inetd services, and the
stability is Committed.
2. Manpage diffs
*** inetd.Ocat Wed Aug 26 16:39:12 2009
--- inetd.cat Wed Aug 26 16:40:32 2009
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*** 473,478 ****
--- 473,487 ----
set to true.
+ tcp_keepalive
+
+ If true, enable the periodic transmission of messages on
+ a connected socket. If the connected party fails to
+ respond to these messages, the connection is con-
+ sidered broken. This applies only to services with
+ endpoint_type set to streams and wait set to false.
+
+
tcp_trace
If true, and this is a nowait-type service, inetd logs
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*** 566,571 ****
--- 575,581 ----
inherit_env true
max_con_rate -1
max_copies -1
+ tcp_keepalive false
tcp_trace false
tcp_wrappers false
