Oh, of course you're right. I was inside too much layers to think of the tcp protocol, and I did not pay attention to it.
Maybe something could be added to the manpage anyway. The bad thing is that there's no way I can use a socket for writing using select() if that connection has been half-closed by the other end. Moo. Thanks a lot for your time, Lluís 2007/3/12, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've tried a select() for write against a closed tcp socket (closed by > the other side), and the select call _blocks_. A TCP close from the remote node is single sided. It sends a FIN and we ACK the FIN, that means only that the remote node has completed *sending*. > Any write() call to that socket will _not block_, and will return with EPIPE. We don't know this until you try the write. At that point the other end if it has closed entirely will issue an RST and terminate the connection in full. I don't therefore believe that this is actually a bug. Alan
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