On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 09/15/2015 06:29 PM, Nico Williams wrote: [...] >> >> But if you have a fatal error you'll be closing immediately anyways. >> Does sending the fatal alert cause a problem other than increase the >> likelihood of RSTs? What is the alternative considering that the next >> step is to close the connection anyways? > > I'm trying to explain that any requirement to send fatal alerts will be > difficult to implement. With the BSD sockets API, the only way to do > that reliable is *not* to close the socket immediately, which is > apparently not what you (or existing APIs) expect, and which is where > the difficulty lies.
What about SO_LINGER? -- Henrik Grubbström gru...@grubba.org Roxen Internet Software AB gru...@roxen.com _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
