Of sockets, hanging, and Windows

[John Meinel]

Shutdown didn't seem to do anything either fwiw. If I got to recv there
wasn't anything I could find that would make it return other than closing
the client end.

John
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On Oct 26, 2011 6:47 AM, "Martin Pool" <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:

> So if I'm understanding you correctly and if I remember my previous
> experience with Windows sockets, the heart of it is that 'close'
> really closes the file handle associated with the socket, but not
> directly the socket itself, and for that you should use shutdown.
> Conversely on Unix, normally you should just close the socket and you
> will only use shutdown if you want to do something tricky with the
> socket being half-closed, or if you want to abruptly disconnect losing
> buffered data.
>
> Martin
>
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