Bug in java.net.Socket close() behavior?

[Greg Lewis]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:24:08PM -0400, Joseph Gleason wrote:
> According to the API for java.net.Socket close():
> 
> "Any thread currently blocked in an I/O operation upon this socket
> will throw a SocketException."
> 
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#close()
> 
> I have observed that java 1.5 on FreeBSD does not follow this while
> the Windows and Linux ones I have tested do.  On the FreeBSD runtimes
> that I have tested, a thread blocked on reading a socket just hangs
> forever if the socket is closed.

See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=97921

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