Re: 2.2: data loss after socket close

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Sat, 7 Aug 1999 22:36:53 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> After insertion of a loop with "ioctl (sd, FIONREAD, &char_waiting)" and "read
> all waiting chars into a dummy buffer" just before i close the socket it
> works with Linux 2.2.
>
> I will name this #ifdef "FLUSH_INPUT" instead of "LINUX22_WORKAROUND"
> to outline that the old socket handling of the application was not correct.

Aaa... Only not this! Your app must read data until EOF not depending
on any ifdefs.

Alexey

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