[sr-dev] git:master:09c5e606: tcpops Add tcp_conid_state function to check connection state

[Olle E. Johansson]

> On 02 Oct 2015, at 09:42, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 02/10/15 07:16, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>>> On 01 Oct 2015, at 23:07, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I pushed two commits, because yours was resulting in compile errors due
>>> to different name in declaration of the function prototype. Then I
>>> noticed that the connection was not released after it was looked up. I
>>> hope I haven't broken other stuff.
>> Thanks. Changed the name in last minute based on suggestions, but wasn’t
>> awake enough to really test again… Ouch.
>>> On the other hand, an explicit function to use when needing to test if
>>> connection is ok could me more user friendly than handling all the
>>> return codes.
>>> So adding one may worth the trouble for few more lines of
>>> code.
>> You mean adding my original idea of a function with just true/false checks?
>> I can do that.
>> 
>> 
> Yes, a function to just say true if the connection is alive, that's what
> I expect to be the common use case. Accepting and connecting states are
> not for the connections that already received a register packet, but the
> existion function is returning true, if some one wants to use a simple
> if(...).

Will fix. That was my original function :-)

I also want to add a function that determines if the TCP connection is inbound or outbound.

/O