On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 05:22:57PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
On 3/8/20 9:13 AM, Derek Fawcus wrote:
Now what would have been useful is a way to have
distinct fd's for the
local read and write end of (e.g.) a TCP socket - such that one direction
could be closed w/o closing the other.
I believe that this can be done, now. At least I've read that it's possible
for one end to close (FIN) a TCP connection without the other end also
closing. Thus you end up with the one-way data flow that is still ACKed the
way that TCP does.
Yes, it can be tricky to do it portably but I have.