Tracking Issue for `tcp_keepalive`
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- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Feature gate: #![feature(tcp_keepalive)]
This is a tracking issue for exposing SO_KEEPALIVE on TcpStream, which asks the OS to send keepalive packets over the stream automatically.
Public API
impl TcpStream {
pub fn set_keepalive(&self, keepalive: bool) -> io::Result<()>;
pub fn keepalive(&self) -> io::Result<bool>;
}
Steps / History
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- ACP: rust-lang/libs-team#...
- Implementation: #...
- Final comment period (FCP)^1
- Stabilization PR
Unresolved Questions
- None yet.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named; start by reviewing the public TcpStream API and the tcp_keepalive feature gate described in the issue. This issue is complete only after the remaining final comment period and stabilization PR steps are finished.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100