Help: shutdown(..., SHUT_WR) on TCP sockets

[Florian Weimer]

* Sergey Organov:

> Maybe, but honestly, I fail to see how adding 'shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR)'
> anywhere before 'close(fd)' can do things worse from the POV of data
> delivery to the other end.
>
> What I observe is that either:
>
> sleep(1);
> close(fd);
> exit(0);
>
> or:
>
> sleep(1);
> shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR);
> close(fd);
> exit(0);
>
> deliver all the data, while:
>
> shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR);
> sleep(1);
> close(fd);
> exit(0);
>
> cuts some of the data (read() returns 0 on the other end indicating
> closed socket).

Wait, you get less data with the last sequence?  And you do not write to
fd after the shutdown call?

That should definitely not happen.

> Another mystery is that 'ioctl(fd, TIOCOUTQ, &v)' gives 0 in all the
> above cases when put at the beginning of the above sequences[*],
> indicating that there are no pended data, so there should be nothing to
> loose in the first place, one way or another.

Yes, I agree that data loss should not happen in these cases.  There has
to be something else that triggers an RST segment, or perhaps there is a
middlebox with a broken TCP implementation.

Thanks,
Florian