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From:
Matthias Kilian <kili@outback.escape.de>
Subject:
Re: Dealing with software using Linux TCP socket options
To:
David Uhden Collado <david@uhden.dev>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:49:18 +0200

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 11:30:52PM +0200, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> 2. Linux TCP Socket Options: SimpleXMQ, on which the SimpleX Chat CLI client
> depends, uses Linux-specific TCP socket options [2] that are not available
> in OpenBSD [3], namely TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL, and TCP_KEEPCNT. My
> questions regarding this issue are:
[...]

For all of those options,

	https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/tcp.7.html

states that they should not be used in coded intended to be portable.
So you should probably ask upstream why they use those options.

Ciao,
	Kili