Russ Cox wrote:
Is this a terrible idea?
Yes. It's TCP-specific and hardly ever necessary.
I thought we'd convinced you last time.
maybe you had.
however, this is a distributed computing system, and something like 100%
of my usage is over a network. In fact, the single most important thing
I do with these things is over a network. IL being long gone, all that
usage is over tcp.
So, yeah, it's tcp specific, but ... so is everything, since everything
I do is on a network, and all network stuff is tcp.
The fact that we can't do a trivial thing like shutdown one side of a
socket is kind of a headache, and, yes, it's an infrequent headache, but
I'm spending too much on tylenol as it is (I work for DOE, after all).
Obviously, I can start buying store-brand drugs, in bulk, but I wanted
to ask one more time about the other option, removing the occasional
cause of a headache.
ron
