From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:27:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] http: enable keepalive on TCP sockets
Message-ID: <20131014052739.GA16129@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1310131142080.22193@tvnag.unkk.fr>

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote:
> 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.