Re: Sockets, writing data and shutdownOutput

jan V wrote: 

On a software engineering note, this just goes to highlight yet again that
the vast majority of managers completely fail to invest enough resources to
ensure that QUALITY (incl. low defects) is produced before launching some
library API into the big bad world. The above example is one of so many
where the original authors now face the dillema of "Shall we fix this, and
thus break thousands of applications that relied on this flaw, or shall we
leave the flaw as is to maintain backward compatibility?" Either way, the
situation is very messy. The only solution to this is to invest more time
and resources in PREVENTING such bugs creeping in in the first place...

You mean to criticise your manager because he failed to make you test your software sufficiently?

For a small product produced with a tough externally set deadline, I think it was reasonable not to support half-open streams. Other than for some operations on early version of HTTP I believe it's a relative obscure feature of TCP.

Tom Hawtin
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Unemployed English Java programmer
http://jroller.com/page/tackline/
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