[issue32038] Add API to intercept socket.close()

[Ben Darnell]

Ben Darnell <ben.darnell at gmail.com> added the comment:

It's worse than a resource leak - the same file descriptor number could be reused for a different file/socket, and then depending on the selector in use, you could see the data from a completely different connection. 

I did see a bug like this years ago (in libcurl), although it's not a common problem. I'd use the proposed hook if it existed, but it seems like an intrusive solution to a rare issue.

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