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From: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu>
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:59:19 +0000 (CT0)
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: socket read()/write() problem in 1.1.6 [solved]
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In any case, thanks for clarifying this issue. Much appreciated.
Markus

Corinna Vinschen writes:
 > On Monday 11 December 2000 20:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 > > closesocket() behaves different dependent on the SO_LINGER option
 > > set. The default behaviour of SO_DONTLINGER which results in a
 > > immediate return while the connection is gracefully shutdown
 > > in the background.
 > >
 > > The new Cygwin socket code doesn't use standard handle duplication
 > > on socket inheritance between processes but the special Winsock2
 > > functions WSADuplicateSocket() and WSASocket().
 > >
 > > When calling closesocket() on duplicated sockets using the above
 > > Winsock2 method, closesocket() seems to act as if SO_LINGER with
 > > zero time-out is enabled which results in closesocket() returning
 > > immediately while forcing an immediate termination of the
 > > connection.
 > >
 > > That behaviour is not documented in the MSDN, AFAICS.
 > 
 > Sorry, folks. I have discovered the above description to be somewhat
 > rash. Further intensiv testing lead to the result that it's in fact
 > only a timing difference between using Winsock 1.1 and Winsock 2.0
 > sockets. You can reproduce the connection reset failure even with the
 > old implementation. It's far less frequently, though. 
 > 
 > > I tried various workarounds but the only reliable way seems to
 > > be to perform a graceful shutdown in the application.
 > 
 > At least this remains true.
 > 
 > Corinna
 > 
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