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		zzzcpan on Dec 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD per... > in some cases HTTP requests can be quite large Sure. I might have slightly overgeneralized some things to illustrate the point. > equivalent on Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT is something similar on Linux

scottlamb on Dec 26, 2014 [–]

> TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT is something similar on Linux

Not similar enough. In the case I was describing, there are some bytes to read but not a full HTTP request. TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT prevents accept() from returning until there are some bytes to read. That doesn't help.

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