Patch for linux ABI for MSG_NOSIGNAL and out of order tcp packet issue

[David Malone]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:18:42PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> The attached patch checks for
> MSG_NOSIGNAL and if set enables SO_NOSIGPIPE
> for the duration of send call.

I just had a quick look at the patch. The patch should probably
use kern_setsockopt, which will simplify it considerably.
(kern_setsockopt was introduced to FreeBSD 5 this summer to make
it easier to do this sort of thing). It would probably also be
better to do a kern_getsockopt first to find out if SO_NOPIPE is
set and only turn it off afterwards if it wasn't already on.

> Im not 100% sure this is the
> way to do it but have confirmed that the patch works on
> 5.2.1 so if someone could check and commit it that would
> be great.

I guess that it would be even better if we could just pass
SO_NOPIPE to send, or even implement MSG_NOSIGNAL on FreeBSD,
but your patch is probably a reasonably start.

	David.