Re: socket write(2) after remote shutdown(2) problem ?

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:55:09 +0200


On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:44:35AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

> > Your client does not do any write()'s after the shutdown call.
> > It simply exit(0)'s.
>
> You mean the 'server' ? Even if I add a sleep(600) between the
> shutdown() call and the exit() call I get the same behaviour.
>
> Oh I see now. Here is what should happen:
>
> * server shutdown(ALL)
> * the write() should succeed on the client

So this is really supposed to succeed then... Somewhat illogical to
me...

> * client socket receives a TCP reset

How is the client socket supposed to know it received a TCP reset
(I am talking from the application point of view, not the kernel...) ?

Stelian.

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