> Obviously. The connection is now dead. However, trying to make a new
> connection with different settings is perfectly reasonable.
No.
If connect() suddenly did two connection attempts instead of one, just how
many timeouts might that break?
> Why? The connection is dead, but there is nothing to prevent attempting
> another connection.
Right. And thats why connect() returns an error and retries are handled in
userspace.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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