This is probably a dumb question. I understand that there's a well-defined sequence for planned connection termination. But what happens when there are many network packets in flight, and the sender terminates (unplanned and abrupt, something like a segfault)? How/when does the receiver come to know about the sender's death in the recent past? Does it continue receiving all t...
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