On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:15:33PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
 > >close(2) as specified by POSIX doesn't prohibit this weird revoke-like
 > >behavior, but there's nothing in there that mandates it either. (I
 > >thought this discussion had already clarified that.)
 > 
 > There was an attempt to interpret POSIX that way, with which I still
 > disagree. If a FD is closed or reassigned then any current pending
 > operations on it should be terminated.

C&V, please.

 > >Note that while NetBSD apparently supports this behavior because
 > >someone copied it from Solaris, I'm about to go recommend it be
 > >removed.
 > 
 > Which behaviour? The abort accept() on close() behaviour?

That, and aborting anything else too. Close isn't revoke.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholl...@netbsd.org
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