Why set a socket to blocking after setting SO_LINGER values?









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I'm looking at some proprietary legacy code that is setting a non blocking socket to blocking after doing the following.



 lbuf.l_onoff = 1;
lbuf.l_linger = 0;
e = setsockopt(s->s_fd, SOL_SOCKET,
SO_LINGER, (optvalp)&lbuf, sizeof(lbuf));


Any thoughts why this might be needed either now or in the past ?



Code has supported Windows, Unixware, and Solaris in the past. Currently running on CentOs linux.










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    What functions are being called to flush the socket?
    – Jeremy Friesner
    Nov 8 at 23:13










  • I'm also at a loss as to what you mean by "flushing the socket". The concept of "flushing a socket" isn't generally implemented. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
    – Andrew Henle
    Nov 9 at 15:19










  • @JeremyFriesner . I edited the question to show the actual code.
    – Chaim Geretz
    Nov 9 at 19:19














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I'm looking at some proprietary legacy code that is setting a non blocking socket to blocking after doing the following.



 lbuf.l_onoff = 1;
lbuf.l_linger = 0;
e = setsockopt(s->s_fd, SOL_SOCKET,
SO_LINGER, (optvalp)&lbuf, sizeof(lbuf));


Any thoughts why this might be needed either now or in the past ?



Code has supported Windows, Unixware, and Solaris in the past. Currently running on CentOs linux.










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    What functions are being called to flush the socket?
    – Jeremy Friesner
    Nov 8 at 23:13










  • I'm also at a loss as to what you mean by "flushing the socket". The concept of "flushing a socket" isn't generally implemented. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
    – Andrew Henle
    Nov 9 at 15:19










  • @JeremyFriesner . I edited the question to show the actual code.
    – Chaim Geretz
    Nov 9 at 19:19












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up vote
1
down vote

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I'm looking at some proprietary legacy code that is setting a non blocking socket to blocking after doing the following.



 lbuf.l_onoff = 1;
lbuf.l_linger = 0;
e = setsockopt(s->s_fd, SOL_SOCKET,
SO_LINGER, (optvalp)&lbuf, sizeof(lbuf));


Any thoughts why this might be needed either now or in the past ?



Code has supported Windows, Unixware, and Solaris in the past. Currently running on CentOs linux.










share|improve this question















I'm looking at some proprietary legacy code that is setting a non blocking socket to blocking after doing the following.



 lbuf.l_onoff = 1;
lbuf.l_linger = 0;
e = setsockopt(s->s_fd, SOL_SOCKET,
SO_LINGER, (optvalp)&lbuf, sizeof(lbuf));


Any thoughts why this might be needed either now or in the past ?



Code has supported Windows, Unixware, and Solaris in the past. Currently running on CentOs linux.







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  • 2




    What functions are being called to flush the socket?
    – Jeremy Friesner
    Nov 8 at 23:13










  • I'm also at a loss as to what you mean by "flushing the socket". The concept of "flushing a socket" isn't generally implemented. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
    – Andrew Henle
    Nov 9 at 15:19










  • @JeremyFriesner . I edited the question to show the actual code.
    – Chaim Geretz
    Nov 9 at 19:19












  • 2




    What functions are being called to flush the socket?
    – Jeremy Friesner
    Nov 8 at 23:13










  • I'm also at a loss as to what you mean by "flushing the socket". The concept of "flushing a socket" isn't generally implemented. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
    – Andrew Henle
    Nov 9 at 15:19










  • @JeremyFriesner . I edited the question to show the actual code.
    – Chaim Geretz
    Nov 9 at 19:19







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2




What functions are being called to flush the socket?
– Jeremy Friesner
Nov 8 at 23:13




What functions are being called to flush the socket?
– Jeremy Friesner
Nov 8 at 23:13












I'm also at a loss as to what you mean by "flushing the socket". The concept of "flushing a socket" isn't generally implemented. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
– Andrew Henle
Nov 9 at 15:19




I'm also at a loss as to what you mean by "flushing the socket". The concept of "flushing a socket" isn't generally implemented. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
– Andrew Henle
Nov 9 at 15:19












@JeremyFriesner . I edited the question to show the actual code.
– Chaim Geretz
Nov 9 at 19:19




@JeremyFriesner . I edited the question to show the actual code.
– Chaim Geretz
Nov 9 at 19:19

















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