Socket close in Java does not terminate pending read operations.

[Patrick Volery]

I'm developing a server application that communicates over TCP/IP. On certain error conditions, the server closes the socket. I would expect pending reads on Socket InputStreams to terminate when the socket is closed. But nothing happens, the reads hang until the client application stopps.
I do experience this problem only, when the server is run on a HP JVM. On Windows everything works fine. Is that a bug of the HP JVM.

[Mike Stroyan · Accepted solution]

Have a look at the -XdoCloseWithReadPending option.
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/infolibrary/prog_guide/hotspot.html#-XdoCloseWithReadPending