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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Need help with UNIX tcp
Message-ID: <1004@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 05:52:55 GMT
References: <8802181625.AA27348@cod.nosc.mil>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <8802181625.AA27348@cod.nosc.mil>, neerma@COD.NOSC.MIL (Merle A. Neer) writes:
> The problem simply stated is this: the user process cannot get the
> status of its tcp connections from UNIX.

> Have any UNIX guru-types ever considered offering a
> 'status(myconnect)' call?  We'll gladly pay for one.

If you're running 4.3, I can give you a socket ioctl to return the
status of the connection (as in one of the values in
../netinet/tcp_fsm.h, like TCPS_LISTEN, TCPS_ESTABLISHED, TCPS_CLOSING,
etc).  It's not really hard; it'd take all of an afternoon.  Just drop
another ioctl into ../h/ioctl.h and into ../netinet/tcp_usrreq.c (in
the if req == PRU_CONTROL statement).

					der Mouse

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