Re: Networking Question

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

Hi all!

On 21/06/2022 02:29, Ryan P. Nicholl wrote:
> I've been unable to find any Linux API for asynchronously waiting for the TCP send buffer to drain.
>
> The problem I have, in a nutshell, is noted in this part of the documentation:
>
>         If fildes refers to a socket, close() shall cause the socket to
>         be destroyed. If the socket is in connection-mode, and the

That's not really a Linux kernel question as such (because that should 
work that way on all TCP connections anywhere) but the shutdown() 
syscall is probably what you need:
- your side shuts down the sending part of the socket.
- the other side reads data and gets eventually EOF
- the other side call shutdown() for it's sending side when it's done.
- your side gets EOF.
And then your side knows that no data is in flight.
- finally, you clean up with close(). You can shutdown() the receiving
  side too but doesn't change anything.

[ deleted SO_LINGER stuff - that's for something completelly different ... ]

Kind regards,
	Bernd
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