Re: TCP write fails to timeout

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
30 Oct 1998 12:45:26 +0100


In article <3639AC5F.2119A19B@hol.fr>,
Hubert Tonneau <tonneau.heliosam@hol.fr> writes:
> I use TCP connections between
> - a Linux box (tested with 2.0.35 and 2.1.125)
> - OS/2 boxes.

> When the OS/2 box shuts down the connection in the middle,
> while the Linux box was writting,
> the connection will often remain infinitely in CLOSE_WAIT state.
> No SIGPIPE is received, and the 'write' operation never ends.

Could you supply a tcpdump log of such an occurrence ?

-Andi

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