Read this by @majek04. Then think about the attack this is needed to prevent. TCP as specified is not adversarial. https://blog.cloudflare.com/this-is-strictly-a-violation-of-the-tcp-specification/ …
Right. I'm saying, if the peer (client) fully closed the socket, I can't see any motive for CLOSE_WAIT.
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ah, right. I don’t think the client has a way to communicate a full close of a socket, though. FIN is 1W close.
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RST is a full close
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There's nothing useful the app can do with the socket, so the kernel could (should?) reap it itself.
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