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E.g. a server accepts a connection, then spawn a child to handle it. The server wants to close the socket to reclaim fd in the process, but the child still needs to communicate with the client. From: Takashi Kato <ktakashi@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Last call Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:30:36 +0200 > I'll add the following sentence to socket-close; > > The procedure should not shutdown the given socket. To shutdown a > socket, socket-shutdown should be called explicitly. > > This is my curiosity. I think most of platforms free fd when close(2) > is called and means the given socket fd will be invalid. What would be > the happy case that socket-close doesn't automatically shutdown the > socket? > > > _/_/ > Takashi Kato > E-mail: ktakashi@xxxxxxxxx