Name

NETL-203 — Preparing socket for TCP reset by setsockopt() failed

Severity

E (error)

Message text

%s: Setting SO_LINGER for TCP reset failed

Description

It is possible to signal an error to the peer (other side of a TCP connection) by performing reset of the connection instead of the normal shutdown. This is achieved by setting socket flag SO_LINGER to on but with zero lingering time and then closing the socket. If setting SO_LINGER fails, TCP reset cannot be done.

The message header contains NETIO structure name and file descriptor number.

See also

logging(7)

Authors

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