netdev - Re: TCP Connection teardown seems to violate TCP specification

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Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	damian@....rwth-aachen.de
Cc:	rick.jones2@...com, ycheng@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP Connection teardown seems to violate TCP specification

From: Damian Lukowski <damian@....rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:18:17 +0200

> Nevertheless, shouldn't the stack keep on reading the input
> even if the local application is not interested in it?

Absolutely, positively, not.

It is a loss of data, and therefore TCP responds with a reset when
pending read data is not consumed by the application.
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