Liane Praza wrote:
> 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.
+1, it seems obvious enough.
- Garrett
>
> liane
>
> ---
>
> 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
> ***************
> *** 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
> ***************
> *** 566,571 ****
> --- 575,581 ----
> inherit_env true
> max_con_rate -1
> max_copies -1
> + tcp_keepalive false
> tcp_trace false
> tcp_wrappers false
