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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:00:33 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: data in socketpair() channel lost if writer closes or exits without shutting down
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In-Reply-To: <20010716215405.F25442@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:54:05PM +0200

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:54:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:00:10PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>> Or, slightly more complex but slightly more correct, keep track of
>> whether or not a socket was at some point shared between multiple
>> processes (either as a result of a fork or as a result of sending a
>> file descriptor between processes (does Cygwin support that?)).  When
>> a socket is first shared, we can set SO_LINGER as I described above.
>> Then, when a socket is closed, check if it was ever shared and call
>> shutdown if it wasn't.
>
>Since Cygwin has currently no "device layer" (though planned for the
>future) we have no sharing of data between duplicated and inherited
>file descriptors, unfortunately.

I wonder if we could kludge something into the delete-on-close queue
for now...

cgf

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