On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:49:10PM +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: > Fixing this on the receive side alone seems quite messy and fragile. > So instead, I think we should let the master send a shutdown message > after it has sent everything it wants to send, and wait for the client > to acknowledge it before shutting down the socket. > > If the client fails to respond, we could log a fat WARNING.
ISTM the master should half close the socket, using shutdown(). That way the client receives an EOF and can still then send its reply to the master. Then when the master receives that it can close() completely. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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