From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 22:44:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] daemon: enable SO_KEEPALIVE for all sockets
Message-ID: <xmqq37p5zrjk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160525031505.5720-1-e@80x24.org>

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:

> While --init-timeout and --timeout options exist and I've never
> run git-daemon without them, some users may forget to set them
> and encounter hung daemon processes when connections fail.
> Enable socket-level timeouts so the kernel can send keepalive
> probes as necessary to detect failed connections.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
> ---

This makes sense as a follow-up to e47a8583 (enable SO_KEEPALIVE for
connected TCP sockets, 2011-12-06), I think.