From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <430ADE1D.6070402@lanl.gov> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:28:13 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] changing close() References: <43008555.4010803@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b483c0e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >>Is this a terrible idea? > > > Yes. It's TCP-specific and hardly ever necessary. > I thought we'd convinced you last time. maybe you had. however, this is a distributed computing system, and something like 100% of my usage is over a network. In fact, the single most important thing I do with these things is over a network. IL being long gone, all that usage is over tcp. So, yeah, it's tcp specific, but ... so is everything, since everything I do is on a network, and all network stuff is tcp. The fact that we can't do a trivial thing like shutdown one side of a socket is kind of a headache, and, yes, it's an infrequent headache, but I'm spending too much on tylenol as it is (I work for DOE, after all). Obviously, I can start buying store-brand drugs, in bulk, but I wanted to ask one more time about the other option, removing the occasional cause of a headache. ron