From: Enke Chen <enkechen2020@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 05:19:46 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: tcp.7: Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
X-Git-Tag: man-pages-5.11~282
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1942e41202aa5cc39dd8970ab62cd1b288277753;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git

tcp.7: Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT

mtk: Enke later noted that this patch provides better documentation
of longstanding behavior (rather documenting a change in behavior).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 8b78cb6e19..cc08e3522a 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ This option takes an
 as an argument.
 When the value is greater than 0,
 it specifies the maximum amount of time in milliseconds that transmitted
-data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcibly close the
+data may remain unacknowledged, or bufferred data may remain untransmitted
+(due to zero window size) before TCP will forcibly close the
 corresponding connection and return
 .B ETIMEDOUT
 to the application.