bpo-30319: socket.close() now ignores ECONNRESET (#2565)

socket.close() was modified in Python 3.6 to raise OSError on
failure: see bpo-26685.

Author: vstinner

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-07-04-13-48-21.bpo-30319.hg_3TX.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+socket.close() now ignores ECONNRESET error.

Modules/socketmodule.c

@@ -2696,7 +2696,9 @@ sock_close(PySocketSockObject *s)
         Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
         res = SOCKETCLOSE(fd);
         Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
-        if (res < 0) {
+        /* bpo-30319: The peer can already have closed the connection.
+           Python ignores ECONNRESET on close(). */
+        if (res < 0 && errno != ECONNRESET) {
             return s->errorhandler();
         }
     }