Hello! > Could somebody explain the difference between > "shutdown(socket, SHUT_RD)" and This is just nop for TCP. > 2. How could side B know that side A has called "shutdown(socket, SHUT_RD)"? In no way. Does this answers to all the questions? :-) Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html