From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 23 05:52:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21074 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 05:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (jmZOnL2GTyQhO2xG8Tl9FeZ44uyPpyS9@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.46.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA21063 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 05:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.33.67] ([LENadC0sRJFDDfU+5NyEngB1yH0XqD8R]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0ydDmN-0000Vg-00; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:52:03 +0100 Received: from njs3 by oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0ydDmM-0001hC-00; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:52:02 +0100 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:52:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jim Shankland "Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2..." (May 22, 5:25pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Jim Shankland , tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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