Are handles closed automatically when they fall out of scope?

[John Goerzen]

On 2004-10-25, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2004 21:58, Peter Simons wrote:
>
> On 24 October 2004 23:37, John Goerzen wrote:
>
>> * What happens when one Handle corresponding to a socket is closed,
>>   but another isn't?
>
> You shouldn't have two Handles on the same socket.  This is an unchecked
> error.

This does seem useful, though.  I am actually doing this in my code and
it works.  One Handle is opened ReadOnly, the other WriteOnly.  That
way, I can use hGetContents on the reading side in my network code.

If I tried that with a single Handle opened ReadWrite, then I'd get
errors about it being closed whenever I'd try to write out some data.

I wasn't able to find any other good way around it.

-- John