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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 symbolic constant for use as a socket option at the
IPPROTO_TCP level:
TCP_NODELAY Avoid coalescing of small segments.
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 POSIX.1‐2008, getsockopt(), setsockopt()
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition,
Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event
of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
http://www.unix.org/online.html .
Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced
during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
IEEE/The Open Group 2013 netinet_tcp.h(7POSIX)