mozilla-services/heka — pull request #888 by carlosdp (2014-06-05 17:38:32+00:00)
Title: Add TCP Keep Alive options to TcpInput/TcpOutput

Implements #864 by adding toml config options to enable TCP keep alive for both input/output plugins. I implemented it in the most straight-forward way of casting the `*net.TCPConn` type. This means the option can't be used in unit tests because of the use of `MockConn`, but the mock object can still be used in tests. I modified the listener in `TcpInput` to explicitly use `net.ListenTCP` and verified the use of a "tcp" dial in `TcpOutput`, so the only types of connections outside of unit tests that should reach that code are `*net.TCPConn`, but it is worth a review.