Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!root44!jgh
From: jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Call queueing
Keywords: listen queue
Message-ID: <626@root44.co.uk>
Date: 25 Aug 88 16:10:01 GMT
Organization: UniSoft Ltd., London, England
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The BSD listen(2) syscall (on a socket) provides for the specification
of a queue of pending connection requests.  So does the TLI T_LISTEN function.

What are the pros and cons of this functionality?  Is it merely a matter
of the cost of copying a protocol control block versus the cost of opening
and initialising one?  Or is there also a functional benefit?

    Jeremy.

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Jeremy Harris			jgh@root.co.uk