On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:09:01AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Quick question. Anyone know how gracefully the kernel handles a
> > socket connection that is killed by the client between a select and
> > accept call? I don't expect any problems, but I know there was a race
> > condition in Linux that caused all kinds of nasty bugs and problems.
>
> There was one in FreeBSD too. It's been fixed; accept(2) will return
> -1 and set errno to ECONNABORTED, which you'd know if you'd RTFM.
And even if it is not a problem with FreeBSD the portable way is to set
the listen socket to non-blocking so accept will always return.
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