Re: [PATCH] http: enable keepalive on TCP sockets
Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote:
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> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013, Eric Wong wrote:
>
> >This is a follow up to commit
> >e47a8583a20256851e7fc882233e3bd5bf33dc6e (enable SO_KEEPALIVE for
> >connected TCP sockets).
>
> Just keep in mind that TCP keep-alive is enabled in awkwardly many
> different ways on different systems and this patch only supports one
> of them. Feel free to take inspiration from libcurl's source code
> for doing this. See:
>
> https://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/master/lib/connect.c#L108
Thanks. I think the Linux-specific TCP_KEEP* knobs are overkill for git.
(since this is mainly for non-interactive users, I went at least a day
before realizing the process was stuck on my machine).
I cannot comment on the knobs for other OSes.