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

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 12 06:34:39 PST 2006


On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> Common sense leads me to think that a close() should release
> threads in IO operations (reads/writes/selects/polls) and
> return EBADF or something appropriate.  At least when behavior
> is not dictated by POSIX or other historical/defactor behavior.

BTW, I tested the behavior on Solaris.  Solaris returns EBADF
with the posted sample C program.

-- 
DE


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