From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   A short TCP question: if I have a listening (server) socket, and   
   select says it is readable, can I call accept() on it and expect it   
   not to block, even if the client/peer host/network dies at that very   
   moment? Stevens and the Linux man page says so, but only implicitly,   
   by saying it will block if the fd isn't readable.   
      
   *Thinking*   
      
   The three-way handshake is supposed to be finished by the time select   
   says the listener is readable, isn't it?  Then accept() shouldn't have   
   to block.  I was somehow thinking accept triggered the last 2/3 of the   
   handshake, and thus might have to wait for RTT and retransmissions.   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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