>I use TCP connections between
>- a Linux box (tested with 2.0.35 and 2.1.125)
>- OS/2 boxes.
>
>When the OS/2 box shuts down the connection in the middle,
>while the Linux box was writting,
>the connection will often remain infinitely in CLOSE_WAIT state.
>No SIGPIPE is received, and the 'write' operation never ends.
I guess this is a bug in the OS/2 TCP implementation that doesn' t send
the RST packet back to linux. Note that if you wait a "bit" ;-) the
connection will timeout anyway. To be sure linux is doing the right thing
we need the interesting tcpdump trace from the linux side though.
Andrea Arcangeli
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