Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > I was scared by the note in the documentation and wondered if the > socket Python API was completely incapable of handling half-closed > connections cross platform. [...] > It makes it half-closed as it should
Indeed. Calling shutdown(SHUT_WR) doesn't close the other end (which doesn't make much sense), it just sends a FIN (or RST depending on the context). It's the other end which decides to return ENOTCONN upon shutdown(SHUT_RD) on OS X, which is questionable (not sure it's against the BSD socket API, since shutdown(SHUT_RD) doesn't have any counterpart in the TCP layer). I also find this note confusing and scary for no good reason, and since I don't think we should document every OS idiosyncrasies, it would probably be better to revert it. I'll leave this open for a couple days to see if anyone objects, otherwise I'll revert it. ---------- resolution: accepted -> status: closed -> open _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6774> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
