Work around Linux kernel bug provoked by nchan.c

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 03:50:02PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > The Linux implementation of TCP sockets has a bug which causes
> > shutdown(sock, SHUT_RD) to fail spuriously (ENOTCONN) if the write
> > side of the socket has already been shut down.
...
> > [I've reported the bug to the kernel developers but they do not seem
> > interested in fixing it.]
>  
> Can you give me a pointer to some discussion on this?

Unfortunately, there was no discussion.  I posted to linux-kernel, it
was ignored.

zw