On Wed, Nov 18, 2015, at 15:45, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa > <han...@stressinduktion.org> wrote: > > I was not saying using tcp_close literally, sorry for not making that > > clear, but just model the state transitions after tcp_close. At least it > > seems like a normal close to me. > > But it shouldn't be a normal close. Consider calling SOCK_DESTROY on a > socket that is streaming data to a peer. If SOCK_DESTROY results in > the kernel sending a FIN, the remote side might think that the sender > closed the connection gracefully, even though the local side aborted > the connection.
Oh, yes, I understand. The connection wasn't closed by the application but by the administrator forcefully. So we should never indicate a successful TCP shutdown with FIN but with RST. A TIME_WAIT period actuallty still seems useful to me, maybe with different semantics, only RST incoming data? Bye, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
