regarding TCP close

[RadhaMohan Dhandapani]

Hi,

(Apologies if this is not the right list to post this query.)

I have the following question (purely from an academic standpoint)
regarding the TCP state machine diagram (as is given in books authored
by Richard Stevens, Comer etc. ). There is a transition from the state
FIN_WAIT1 to the state TIME_WAIT upon receipt of a packet with both
FIN & ACK flags set.  In what scenario(s) will the other end send such
a packet ?
[ I was trying to figure out the scenario from the 2.6 source code. I
was able to find the  code corresponding to the other two transitions
only viz "FIN_WAIT1 to FIN_WAIT2" and "FIN_WAIT1 to CLOSING"]

Thanks for your reply.
~
Regards,
Radha
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