linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection

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Message-ID: <1282824448.2263.3.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:07:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close
 connection

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 12:55 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
[...]
> Cool!
> 
> Ben, I think your code is cleaner than mine. If you allow me, I hope to
> include this one into my patch description.

You can do that if you like, but it seems a bit long for a commit
message.

By the way, I was able to reproduce this bug in RHEL 3 (kernel based on
2.4.21) so it seems to have been around for a while.

Ben.

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