netdev - Re: [Bug 106241] New: shutdown(3)/close(3) behaviour is incorrect for sockets in accept(3)

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Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2015 07:21:58 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@...cle.com>
Cc:	Casper.Dik@...cle.com, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dholland-tech@...bsd.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 106241] New: shutdown(3)/close(3) behaviour is incorrect
 for sockets in accept(3)

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:35 +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:

> If you think it's a POSIX deficiency then logging a DR is probably the 
> correct way of addressing that. And as I've said it's fine to decide 
> that you don't care about what POSIX says on the subject but you can't 
> simultaneously claim POSIX conformance. One or the other, not both.

I claim nothing. If you believe a man page should be fixed, please send
a patch to man page maintainer.

Have you tested the patch I sent ?

The goal here is to improve things, not to say you are right or I am
right. I am very often wrong, then what ?

This list is about linux kernel development.

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