close() of active socket does not work on FreeBSD 6

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Arne H. Juul wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Xu wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:34, Arne H. Juul wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> This is exactly the sort of issue that should be solved by the
>>>> thread library / kernel threads implementation and not in every
>>>> threaded application that needs it, in my view.
>>>> 
>>> It should not be done in new thread library, do you want a bloat
>>> and error-prone thread library ? Instead if this semantic is really
>>> necessary, it should be done in kernel.
>> 
>> Well, it depends on the alternatives.
>> If a clean kernel implementation is possible - yes please, of course.
>> If only a complex, error-prone kernel implementation is possible,
>> I would prefer to have the complexity in the thread library.
>
> Hacking libthr or libpthread to do this for you is not
> an option.  They would then look like libc_r since all
> fd's accesses would need to be wrapped.  If this needs
> to be done, it must be in the kernel.

It's also couldn't be entirely solved by fixing it in the
threads library.  You could still have a non-threaded
application that waits on a read operation, but receives
a signal and closes the socket in the signal handler.

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DE