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Re: data in socketpair() channel lost if writer closes or exits without shutting down
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:00:33PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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...
Hmm, probably...
Corinna
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