1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ace/SOCK_Stream.cpp b/ace/SOCK_Stream.cpp
index eac7daf021d..2acb22f962c 100644
--- a/ace/SOCK_Stream.cpp
+++ b/ace/SOCK_Stream.cpp
@@ -15,10 +15,15 @@ ACE_SOCK_Stream::dump (void) const
 int
 ACE_SOCK_Stream::close (void)
 {
+#if defined (ACE_WIN32)
   // We need the following call to make things work correctly on
   // Win32, which requires use to do a <close_writer> before doing the
-  // close in order to avoid losing data.
+  // close in order to avoid losing data.  Note that we don't need to
+  // do this on UNIX since it doesn't have this "feature".  Moreover,
+  // this will cause subtle problems on UNIX due to the way that
+  // fork() works.
   this->close_writer ();
+#endif /* ACE_WIN32 */
   // Close down the socket.
   return ACE_SOCK::close ();
 }