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Date:      Fri, 15 May 1998 22:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/fingerd fingerd.c
Message-ID:  <199805160216.WAA04061@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805152301.BAA03572@gvr.gvr.org>
References:  <199805150323.UAA10174@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805152301.BAA03572@gvr.gvr.org>

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<<On Sat, 16 May 1998 01:01:00 +0200 (MET DST), Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> said:

> With the code I committed to inetd, you can get actually completely
> delete the NOPUSH code, and specify tcp/ttcp in inetd. However,
> I was under the impression that fingerd no longer has TCP_NOPUSH
> enabled by default!?

No, there was never any reason why it should be disabled in fingerd.
All TCP_NOPUSH does is prevent the sender-TCP from sending out
tinygrams in the name of write boundary preservation.  In the case of
fingerd, what that meant was that the entire reply was usually
buffered until the socket was closed.

-GAWollman

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