Re: lib/52486: socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE not supported?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/52486; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: Benjamin Lorenz <ben@pocket.services>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/52486: socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE not supported?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:59:01 +0200

 On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:14:05AM +0200, Benjamin Lorenz wrote:
 > 
 > > >Synopsis:       getsockopt(socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE) fails in python 
 >   
 >  Well, yes. The kernel only has setsockopt support for it. See 
 >  tcp_usrreq.c line 462ff.
 > 
 > 
 > Shouldn't we complete the support for it? MongoDB driver has been patched now, 
 > see https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/commit/728ee59f279505dbce1acaccfcb81524117d2372
 > 
 > 
 > But we're not leveraging all capabilities now which NetBSD has...
 
 Christos added it in -current, but I odn't understand the MongoDB
 change. If the getsockopt fails, just set max_value unconditional.
 
 Joerg