Date: 25 Jun 2001 08:09:01 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-hackers@chittenden.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept... Message-ID: <xzp1yo91476.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20010624195910.A44590@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010624195910.A44590@rand.tgd.net>
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Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-hackers@chittenden.org> writes: > Quick question. Anyone know how gracefully the kernel handles a > socket connection that is killed by the client between a select and > accept call? I don't expect any problems, but I know there was a race > condition in Linux that caused all kinds of nasty bugs and problems. There was one in FreeBSD too. It's been fixed; accept(2) will return -1 and set errno to ECONNABORTED, which you'd know if you'd RTFM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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