Re: [btns] Q: How to deal with connection latch breaks?

[Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:
    >> My conclusion is that the API ought to provide information for
    >> the application about the connection latching, and it just does
    >> not seem to be there.  If you can point me to a discussion of
    >> this topic on the WG mail list, then I'll clear.  I'm not trying
    >> to alter consensus, but I do want to make sure that this topic
    >> was considered.

    Nicolas> APIs are nice, but existing apps won't use them until
    Nicolas> updated, and anyways, connection latching adds value even
    Nicolas> without adding APIs, which means we need a default response
    Nicolas> to latch breaks in the absence of new APIs (either because
    Nicolas> not implemented or not used).

  So, errno value from write(2) is not a new API.
  A new errno value should provide enough information, I think.

  However, an application might know what to do with ETIMEOUT, while it
would not know what to do with EUNLATCHED or some such....

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