New to the mailing list,please excuse if I did not follow
some mandatory procedures...on the list.

Here is my question(Did search NetBSD/Solaris/NT/FreeBSD/Linux forum
before for the answers.):

I am using SO_LINGER socket option with linger_onoff=1 and l_linger=0,
And I expect that my TCP connection get closed instantly and data discarded
after the close.,

What I am seeing is my socket is going in TIME_WAIT state after the close
 for about 2 min, After digging the code a bit , I see that for
lingeronof=1 and l_linger=0 value
so_linger is forced to copy the default linger_time.

Could some one let me know:

1. The code is correct and its doing the right thing of waiting for 2min,

2. Or its ok to comment out this code , so that l_linger=0 is retained and
    connection get closed with RST. Note that I am fine with
    client getting RST and leading with data corruption etc related issue.

3. Or/And  the definition of SO_LINGER should be different for
lingeronof=1 and l_linger=0.



Link to the code:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_usrreq.c?annotate=1.13
In tcp_userreq.c


Link to the code snipped that I am referring in the question:
                    120         /*
                    121:         * TCP attaches to socket via
PRU_ATTACH, reserving space,
                    122:         * and an internet control block.
                    123:         */
                    124:        case PRU_ATTACH:
                    125:                if (inp) {
                    126:                        error = EISCONN;
                    127:                        break;
                    128:                }
                    129:                error = tcp_attach(so);
                    130:                if (error)
                    131:                        break;
                    132:                if ((so->so_options &
SO_LINGER) && so->so_linger == 0)
1.13    ! glass     133:                        so->so_linger =
TCP_LINGERTIME * hz;
1.1       cgd       134:                tp = sototcpcb(so);
                    135:                break;

thanks
hongal