[erlang-questions] how to flush a gen_tcp socket on close?

[Anthony Shipman]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:38:41 pm Andreas Schultz wrote:
> > And to comment on the other reply, using shutdown/2 should most
> > certainly not be needed for this - the only purpose of using that is to
> > do a "half close".
> 
> Shutdown seems not to process the send queue.
> 
If close() called shutdown(, read_write) which blocked until the data was 
fully flushed then it would all make sense.
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