[erlang-questions] : gen_tcp not correctly handling half duplex (shutdown) sockets?

[Raimo Niskanen]

We will look into this after the holidays...

Thank you for the bug report! (at least it appears to be a bug)



On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:49:05PM -0600, Scott R Parish wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Its not clear to me if i'm doing something wrong, or if gen_tcp isn't
> > correctly handling half duplex sockets.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Its like erlang is thinking that the whole socket got closed, instead of
> > just one direction, and close()ed it.
> 
> I think this might be the problem. In R11-B5's inet_drv.c line 8499:
> 
>     else if (n == 0) {
>         DEBUGF(("  => detected close\r\n"));
>         return tcp_recv_closed(desc);
>     }
> 
> tcp_recv_closed()'s is described as:
> 
>    /* The socket has closed, cleanup and send event */
> 
> This isn't completely correct as the socket isn't necessarily close()d,
> just shutdown() in a single direction.
> 
> sRp
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