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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20061212160016.W56465 at delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Daniel Eischen wrote:

>It's probably a nightmare in the kernel too.  close() starts looking
>like revoke(), and revoke() has large problems and bugs in this area.

There is the distinctive difference that revoke() operates on a name
and close() on a filedescriptor, but otherwise I agree.

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