Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:52:02 +0100 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, tlambert@primenet.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... Message-ID: <E0ydDmM-0001hC-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> "Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2..." (May 22, 5:25pm)
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On May 22, 5:25pm, Jim Shankland wrote: } Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... > btw, whoever it was who said, "Don't do this because rsh uses > half-open connections" -- you missed a key point. None of this > applies if the application process still has the socket open. > This only applies when the application has entirely closed the > socket, so there's nobody there to receive any data that might > arrive. That was me. I don't believe what you are saying is correct. A process can place a socket in TIME_WAIT_2 by issuing a shutdown(fd, 1) while continuing to read from it. Niall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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