Re: [9fans] adding TCP half-duplex close

["Fran. J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

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I used half closes to put go chans in the network for my weird chan based network
calls. 
But the code works without such feature. 
Being just that, I dont know if it counts. 

> El 5 feb 2017, a las 5:39, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> escribió:
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> yes, i'm still trying to find a real situation where this would be critical. i asked go-nuts list for production examples at the same time as the start of this thread. no answers yet.
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>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 3:31 AM Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> it's also funny that the rationale seems to be to pass the same conformance test for Go that once had it added to Inferno so it would pass a Java test but it was never otherwise used for reasons already given, so I took it out again.
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>> On 4 February 2017 at 10:11, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did once have a use for this in an o/s of mine, in a sort of network pipe to servers, but it was so variably implemented by other systems (data was flushed, or not) I gave it up as not particularly useful in practice, except between two known systems that did what you wanted.
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>> On 4 February 2017 at 09:58, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 4 February 2017 at 01:56, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Shutting down the write-end (i.e. 'shut_wr'), should send FIN, and transition to Finwait1.
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>> i'd make it a "read" or "write" parameter to the existing "hangup" message. older implementations that don't accept the parameter will give an error on the request because the current tcp.c doesn't accept a parameter
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