Re: what got broken in 2.2 kernels' TCP/IP?

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:24:01 -0400 (EDT)


Alan Cox writes:

>> they get a "network error" when the socket gets closed.
>
> You are not reading all the data from the client. Per the RFC
> Linux 2.2 sends a reset to indicate to the other end that you
> shut down without reading all the sent data.

Any way to override this? Say I actually want to toss the data
in the fastest way possible and get my file descriptor back.

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