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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SO_KEEPALIVE considered harmful?
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Date: 23 May 89 12:04:55 GMT
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I have a random question that I hope this illustrious audience can answer
definitively for me (or else point me to a definitive source).  Is the BSD
notion of SO_KEEPALIVE on a TCP connection considered kosher with respect to
the TCP specification?  If so, is its use to be encouraged?  Specifically,
it has been suggested that in the X Window System world, X libraries
should automatically be setting SO_KEEPALIVE on connections to X servers.  Is this
a reasonable thing to do?

[If this is a totally inappropriate forum for this question, I apologize.]