Socket bugs

[Gerhard Paulus]

Hello Roger,

Funny, Sun's Win32 VM allows it. Maybe Sun should try harder with "write
once, run everywhere" <g>

IAC stopping the reading thread explicitly seems to be a good idea. 

Gerhard

> > if a socket is closed and a thread is reading from the socket's input
> > stream then  this thread should be able to catch the SocketException
> > "Socket closed" (as in JDK)
> 
> Sun's JDK on Solaris with native threads actually coredumps if you do
> this!