Might a patch be accepted? (was Re: [PATCH] Using TCP_NODELAY unconditionally)

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:31:45AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Rick Jones wrote:
> > "Conservative in what you send" would seem to suggest that assuming that
> > future subsystems are well-behaved is not a given :)
> 
> If a future subsystems would misbehave, you would be able to see that by
> the fact that it generates a lot of tinygrams.  The most generic solution
> would of course be to have the possibility to add a nodelay flag to the
> subsystem line in the sshd config file.

I may have to have such a feature, in which case I could maintain a
local patch, but I would prefer if such a patch were accepted.

OpenSSH Team: what sort of patch w.r.t. TCP_NODELAY handling would you
be willing to accept?

I might like to see client and server config file options for specifying
whether X11 or other port forwarding should imply TCP_NODELAY and
similar options per-subsystem as Tobias suggests as well as, possbily, a
global option to override all the others.

Cheers,

Nico
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