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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   David Schwartz  wrote:   
   > No, but what can happen is that the other end can complete the   
   > three- way handshake and then RST the connection. The implementation   
   > does not have to return a dead connection to you (and what would be   
   > the point of it doing so?).   
      
   A reasonable question - of course, HP-UX 11.X will return ENOBUFS on   
   the accept() call when that happens (and I ass-u-me there is no other   
   connection on the listen queue).  No, I don't know why ENOBUFS was   
   chosen vs something like EAGAIN...   
      
   rick jones   
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