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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2023-06-13 10:15:59 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2023-06-13 14:17:25 +0200
commit768fcd779fbb9fd86932da4bef031260b88da210 (patch)
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parentMerge pull request #28014 from bluca/portable_fixes (diff)
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socket: bump listen() backlog to INT_MAX everywhere
This is a rework of #24764 by Cristian Rodríguez <crodriguez@owncloud.com>, which stalled. Instead of assigning -1 we'll use a macro defined to INT_MAX however.
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-rw-r--r--man/systemd.socket.xml13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.socket.xml b/man/systemd.socket.xml
index 474f1d309d..ec145c3710 100644
--- a/man/systemd.socket.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.socket.xml
@@ -341,12 +341,13 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Backlog=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Takes an unsigned integer argument. Specifies
- the number of connections to queue that have not been accepted
- yet. This setting matters only for stream and sequential
- packet sockets. See
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>listen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for details. Defaults to SOMAXCONN (128).</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Takes an unsigned 32bit integer argument. Specifies the number of connections to
+ queue that have not been accepted yet. This setting matters only for stream and sequential packet
+ sockets. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>listen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
+ details. Note that this value is silently capped by the <literal>net.core.somaxconn</literal> sysctl,
+ which typically defaults to 4096. By default this is set to 4294967295, so that the sysctl takes full
+ effect.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>