INN commit: trunk (configure.ac doc/pod/news.pod nnrpd/nnrpd.c)

[INN Commit]

    Date: Monday, March 28, 2016 @ 10:38:48
  Author: iulius
Revision: 9985

nnrpd:  keep TCP_NODELAY only for BSD/OS systems

Fixed slow nnrpd responses for a few NNTP commands.  The TCP_NODELAY
option was unconditionally set whereas only BSD/OS systems needed it.
Modern networking stacks do not need such tweaks.

Thanks to Christian Mock for having discovered that.

Modified:
  trunk/configure.ac
  trunk/doc/pod/news.pod
  trunk/nnrpd/nnrpd.c

------------------+
 configure.ac     |    6 ++++++
 doc/pod/news.pod |    6 ++++++
 nnrpd/nnrpd.c    |   11 ++++++++---
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Modified: configure.ac
===================================================================
--- configure.ac	2016-01-31 13:15:30 UTC (rev 9984)
+++ configure.ac	2016-03-28 17:38:48 UTC (rev 9985)
@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@
         [Define if compiling on Linux to get prototypes for some functions.])
     ;;
 
+dnl Detect BSD/OS for later use in nnrpd code.
+*-bsdi*)
+    AC_DEFINE([INN_BSDI_HOST], [1],
+        [Define if compiling on BSD/OS systems.])
+    ;;
+
 dnl HP-UX's native compiler needs a special flag to turn on ANSI, and needs
 dnl -g on link as well as compile for debugging to work.
 *hpux*)

Modified: doc/pod/news.pod
===================================================================
--- doc/pod/news.pod	2016-01-31 13:15:30 UTC (rev 9984)
+++ doc/pod/news.pod	2016-03-28 17:38:48 UTC (rev 9985)
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@
 
 =item *
 
+Fixed slow B<nnrpd> responses for a few NNTP commands.  The TCP_NODELAY
+option was unconditionally set whereas only BSD/OS systems needed it.
+Thanks to Christian Mock for having discovered that.
+
+=item *
+
 When an encryption layer is negotiated during a successful use of the
 STARTTLS command, or after a successful authentication using a SASL
 mechanism which negotiates an encryption layer, B<nnrpd> now updates

Modified: nnrpd/nnrpd.c
===================================================================
--- nnrpd/nnrpd.c	2016-01-31 13:15:30 UTC (rev 9984)
+++ nnrpd/nnrpd.c	2016-03-28 17:38:48 UTC (rev 9985)
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 #include "portable/socket.h"
 #include <netdb.h>
 #include <signal.h>
-#include <netinet/tcp.h>
+#if defined(INN_BSDI_HOST)
+# include <netinet/tcp.h>
+#endif
 
 #if HAVE_GETSPNAM
 # include <shadow.h>
@@ -579,7 +581,6 @@
     struct sockaddr *sas = (struct sockaddr *) &sss;
     socklen_t length;
     size_t size;
-    int nodelay = 1;
 
     memset(&Client, 0, sizeof(Client));
     strlcpy(Client.host, "?", sizeof(Client.host));
@@ -648,9 +649,13 @@
         Client.serverport = network_sockaddr_port(sas);
     }
 
+#if defined(INN_BSDI_HOST)
     /* Setting TCP_NODELAY to nnrpd fixes a problem of slow downloading
-     * of overviews and slow answers on some architectures (like BSD/OS). */
+     * of overviews and slow answers on some architectures (like BSD/OS
+     * where TCP delayed acknowledgements are enabled). */
+    int nodelay = 1;
     setsockopt(STDIN_FILENO, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, &nodelay, sizeof(nodelay));
+#endif
 
     notice("%s (%s) connect - port %u", Client.host, Client.ip, port);