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Technical Standard: Networking Services (XNS), Issue 5.2 Draft 2.0
Copyright © 1999 The Open Group

NAME

netinet/tcp.h - Definitions for the Internet Transmission Control Protocol

SYNOPSIS


#include <netinet/tcp.h>


DESCRIPTION

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

TCP_NODELAY
Avoid coalescing of small segments

Note that the macro must be defined in the header, but the implementation need not allow the value of the option to be set via setsockopt() or retrieved via getsockopt().

SEE ALSO

getsockopt(), setsockopt(), <sys/socket.h>.

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 4.

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