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From: Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: close socket and TCP RST
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:42:44 +0200
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To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>, linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org

On Wednesday 11 April 2012 14:33:37 you wrote:
> In many cases, shutdown() is not necessary. Normally, one side knows
> whether the other side will send more data. E.g. for (non-pipelined)
> HTTP, the client sends a request, the server sends a response, then
> closes the connection.

It is exactly what he does, but the question is how to close the connection so 
that the client receives the last message. 
He is using for this:

 err = setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, &lin, sizeof(lin));

but for some reason it does not work as it should.
-- 
Bogdan