SOCK_DESTROY: an old Android patch aims upstream

Posted Dec 3, 2015 21:19 UTC (Thu) by luto (subscriber, #39314)
In reply to: SOCK_DESTROY: an old Android patch aims upstream by Cyberax
Parent article: SOCK_DESTROY: an old Android patch aims upstream

No, I mean that Windows has had an interface that allowed a suitably privleged application to explicitly kill individual TCP connections. It's not mandatory to use it.

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SOCK_DESTROY: an old Android patch aims upstream

Posted Dec 3, 2015 22:03 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

Windows has another issue - if a network interface goes down then all the connections for this interface go down as well and you can't override it.

This is extremely annoying if you want, for example, to switch from wired to wireless connection (and your router is set up to assign the same IP to both).

SOCK_DESTROY: an old Android patch aims upstream

Posted Dec 4, 2015 14:19 UTC (Fri) by mstone_ (subscriber, #66309) [Link]

That annoys the hell out of me every time it happens

SOCK_DESTROY: an old Android patch aims upstream

Posted Dec 11, 2015 4:36 UTC (Fri) by toyotabedzrock (guest, #88005) [Link]

And what happens if you move from wireless to wired without turning off wireless? Not to mention your Mac changes which will confuse some routers.