Re: Timeout and wait-forever in sync rep

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 18:51 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >
> > When exactly don't the keepalives work?
> 
> well tcp level keepalives are not terribly portable(or can only be 
> partially controlledd from the app) and on some platforms have lower 
> limits that are in the minutes which is too long for a lot of usecases.
> The keepalive usage we have in 9.0 is mostly for removing an annoyance 
> on some major platforms but depending on them for a major feature like 
> timeouts in sync rep is probably not a good idea.

If we need it, then I'm glad. It's easy to understand and easy to
program too.

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