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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-11-21 14:43:37 -0500
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-11-25 20:54:16 -0500
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tcp.7: Document /proc file tcp_workaround_signed_windows (new in Linux 2.6.26)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 04a7a08ce9..382308ec0a 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -811,6 +811,12 @@ on a socket.
The default value is 128K bytes.
It is lowered to 64K
depending on the memory available in the system.
+.TP
+.IR tcp_workaround_signed_windows " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.6.26)"
+If enabled, assume that no receipt of a window-scaling option means that the
+remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
+If disabled, assume that the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
+not receive a window scaling option from it.
.SS Socket Options
To set or get a TCP socket option, call
.BR getsockopt (2)