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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2004-11-11 16:11:50 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2004-11-11 16:11:50 +0000
commit8dd9ef479fbd53873aa78bb8028121a1297e074d (patch)
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parentd3b2ef5de2e060d7ffebb12f114546f0ea5911c2 (diff)
downloadman-pages-8dd9ef479fbd53873aa78bb8028121a1297e074d.tar.gz
Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY
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diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
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+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
.\" of the modification is added to the header.
.\"
.\" 2.4 Updates by Nivedita Singhvi 4/20/02 <nivedita@us.ibm.com>.
+.\" Modified, 2004-11-11, Michael Kerrisk and Andries Brouwer
+.\" Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY.
.\"
.TH TCP 7 2003-08-21 "Linux Man Page" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
@@ -485,9 +487,11 @@ If set, don't send out partial frames. All queued
partial frames are sent when the option is cleared again.
This is useful for prepending headers before calling
.BR sendfile (2),
-or for throughput optimization. This option cannot be
+or for throughput optimization.
+This option can be
combined with
-.BR TCP_NODELAY.
+.BR TCP_NODELAY
+only since Linux 2.5.71.
This option should not be used in code intended to be
portable.
.TP
@@ -545,8 +549,8 @@ are always sent as soon as possible, even if there is only a
small amount of data. When not set, data is buffered until there
is a sufficient amount to send out, thereby avoiding the
frequent sending of small packets, which results in poor
-utilization of the network. This option cannot be used
-at the same time as the option
+utilization of the network.
+This option is overriden by
.BR TCP_CORK .
.TP
.B TCP_QUICKACK