The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
Copyright © 2001-2004 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.

NAME

netinet/tcp.h - definitions for the Internet Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

SYNOPSIS

#include <netinet/tcp.h>

DESCRIPTION

The <netinet/tcp.h> header shall define the following macro for use as a socket option at the IPPROTO_TCP level:

TCP_NODELAY
Avoid coalescing of small segments.

The macro shall be defined in the header. The implementation need not allow the value of the option to be set via setsockopt() or retrieved via getsockopt().

The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

<sys/socket.h>, the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, getsockopt(), setsockopt()

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 6. Derived from the XNS, Issue 5.2 specification.

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