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Subject: Re: close() failing with ECONNRESET
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Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

> I see that since FreeBSD 6.3 close() can fail with:
>
> > [ECONNRESET]	The underlying object was a stream socket that was
> > 		shut down by the peer before all pending data was
> > 		delivered.
>
> Could someone explain what this is useful for?

Consistency with SIGPIPE, perhaps?