Subject: Re: rlogin connections closed with -current.
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/27/1999 12:11:55
>Both INET and INET6 use TCP. Both use the same fast and slow timeout
>procedures. Since the slow timeout was called twice (once for INET,
>once for INET6) it was incrementing the idle counter by 2 each call,
>or 4 times per second. So, the code thought the socket was 2 hours
>older than it should be when the timer first went off.
>Here's a fix. I've not committed it yet, since I'm not certain it is
>the best one.
I believe the fix is right. Sorry for confusion.
itojun