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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article   
   <2f8a8fc5-f1d9-438a-86ae-da491621e54c@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,   
    David Schwartz  wrote:   
      
   > On Aug 28, 6:21 pm, Barry Margolin  wrote:   
   >   
   > > > Doing a shutdown(SHUT_RD) on a TCP socket is not sensible. You have to   
   > > > remember, that 'shutdown' is protocol-neutral and is designed to   
   > > > support protocols that have a meaningful way to shut down the read   
   > > > end.   
   >   
   > > Such as?   
   >   
   > Unidirectional pipes.   
      
   shutdown() can only be used on sockets, not pipes.  And aren't most pipe   
   implementations unidirectional, so why would you need to shutdown one   
   direction explicitly?   
      
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   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu   
   Arlington, MA   
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