Re: [Patch][RFC] epoll and half closed TCP connections

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:09:47 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> Hello!
>
> > Alexey, they seem to want to add some kind of POLLRDHUP thing,
> > comments wrt. TCP and elsewhere in the networking? See below...
>
> I see. It is highly reasonable. Unlike SVR4 POLLHUP. :-)
>
> Well, "elsewhere" is mostly af_unix, half-duplex close makes sense only
> for tcp and af_unix.

If you agree guys, we can prepare a patch that does the handling in all
places where it has a mean. So that you can look at it.

- Davide

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