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Subject: Re: SO_KEEPALIVE considered harmful?
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Date: 23 May 89 20:34:12 GMT
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If Keepalives are not (judiciously!) used, how does one transparently
discover that the other end of the connection has died a horrible,
sudden death?

One can argue whether this is a transport or session function, but
the ability to lose one end of the connection while the passive
end just hangs forever is NOT a feature.

	-Mike