Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:47:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP bug in 2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970712184406.10593A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707122153.OAA28921@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > 3) The client software was ported from a sane TCP/IP environment, > like UNIX, and the programmers have no idea that "shutdown()" > is supposed to be called (amazingly enough, on UNIX systems, > calling "shutdown()" shuts the machine down... who would have > ever thought of naming a function for what the function does? > Apparently not the originators of Winsock.). The library call shutdown(2) is used to 'shut down' part of a full-duplex socket, you can in essence close() a connection with shutdown(2). -- David Cross
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