António P. P. Almeida Wrote:
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> On 15 Jul 2011 18h23 WEST, nginx-forum@nginx.us
> wrote:
>

> This directive enables or disables resetting the
> connection on
> timeout. When resetting the connection, before
> the socket is closed,
> the socket SO_LINGER option is set with a 0
> timeout, which forces a
> RST packet to be sent to the client upon closing

"the" RST packet, I think, since we mention what kind it is.

> the socket, thus
> freeing all memory associated with it. This
> prevents that a socket
> in the FIN_WAIT1 state keep the buffers
> associated with it lying
> around.

This prevents the socket in the FIN_WAIT1 state, along with the buffers associated with it from lying around.

("the socket" -- since we're talking about the specific socket)

Kudos on working with the English manual!

Andrejs