close() of active socket does not work on FreeBSD 6

David Xu davidxu at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 11 17:04:52 PST 2006


On Tuesday 12 December 2006 08:49, Arne H. Juul wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Xu wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:34, Arne H. Juul wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >> This is exactly the sort of issue that should be solved by the
> >> thread library / kernel threads implementation and not in every
> >> threaded application that needs it, in my view.
> >
> > It should not be done in new thread library, do you want a bloat
> > and error-prone thread library ? Instead if this semantic is really
> > necessary, it should be done in kernel.
>
> Well, it depends on the alternatives.
> If a clean kernel implementation is possible - yes please, of course.
> If only a complex, error-prone kernel implementation is possible,
> I would prefer to have the complexity in the thread library.
>
> That's better than having it in the kernel and (IMHO) better than having N
> implementation in various applications, especially since the applications
> don't necessarily know enough about the internals of the thread library
> and kernel interactions to get it right, much less efficient.
>
> That said, copying the linux_close.c workaround in the Java VM seems to
> solve my immediate problem, even if I think it's a bit ugly.  But I have
> confidence that you can do a better and cleaner solution :-)
>
>    -  Arne H. J.

Thread library only manages POSIX threads, it is nothing to do with how
user will use file. Sorry, I will not mess the thread library.

David Xu


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