Hi, On Thursday, 28. November 2002 04:30, David S. Miller wrote: > When pending read data is present, you must read it all before you > close the socket or else the whole connection will be reset. There > are no exceptions Interesting. I didn't know this either. Now how do I make sure that between my last read() and the close() system call no more data arrives? Sounds like a race condition to me. Or do I have to make sure on higher protocol layers that this situation does not occur? -- Jens -- Jens David, DG1KJD Email: dg1kjd@afthd.tu-darmstadt.de Work: +49 351 80800 527 --- Home/Mobile: +49 160 7563049 - : 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