On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/15/2015 06:29 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
[...]
>>
>> But if you have a fatal error you'll be closing immediately anyways.
>> Does sending the fatal alert cause a problem other than increase the
>> likelihood of RSTs?  What is the alternative considering that the next
>> step is to close the connection anyways?
>
> I'm trying to explain that any requirement to send fatal alerts will be
> difficult to implement.  With the BSD sockets API, the only way to do
> that reliable is *not* to close the socket immediately, which is
> apparently not what you (or existing APIs) expect, and which is where
> the difficulty lies.

What about SO_LINGER?

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Henrik Grubbström                                       [email protected]
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