On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Christian Biere wrote:

> Well, if you would just quit telnet (or whatever) normally instead of
> using SIGKILL the socket should be close()d automatically and the
> server would see that the connection was closed.

The client isn't always under my control.  :(

I've basically given up, and decided to send IAC NOP whenever the
ready-to-read socket returns no data.  The send() gets the local
(server) end of the connection out of CLOSE_WAIT and normal TCP
recovery takes over from there.

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