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Re: tcp RST instead of FIN if child exits after parent closes path
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Brian White" <bcwhite at precidia dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:15:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: tcp RST instead of FIN if child exits after parent closes path
- References: <3E9C374E.4256358D@precidia.com>
Brian White wrote:
[a good analysis, but the subject says it all, really, once a typo is fixed
(s/exists/exits)]
Re: tcp RST instead of FIN if child exits after parent closes path
This is a bug/feature of Windows Sockets. I think it would be possible to
craft a workaround in Cygwin, but it would require some non-trivial IPC.
(IIUC, you would need to maintain a cross-process refcount for the socket).
Max.
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