It looks like mIRC's receive buffer doesn't get flushed when the socket is closed. Here's a code snippet to illustrate:

Code:
/* server.c */
char *message = ":irc.example.com NOTICE AUTH :This is some text to send\r\n";
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new_socket = accept(create_socket,(struct sockaddr *)&address, &addrlen);
send(new_socket, message, strlen(message), 0);
close(new_socket);


When mIRC connects it displays the usual "Software caused connection abort", but with out the message... add a sleep(1); before close(); and it works as expected.

Perhaps codemastr or someone more familiar with the issue could chime in if I'm missing something.

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