Re: [itojun@iijlab.net: accept(2) behavior with tcp RST right afterhandshake]

[Archie Cobbs]

Jonathan Lemon writes:
> It seems to me that the odds of an application being able to correctly
> handle an error return from accept() are far greater than the odds that
> the code  correctly checks 'len' upon return from accept.  This, combined
> with the standard, seems to be rationale enough to make the change.

True.. but even greater still are the chances that an application will
correctly handle accept() returning a *real* sockaddr that corresponds
to an already closed connection.

-Archie

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