Mala Anand wrote: > I am seeing similar problem using netpef3. After my client succefully > closes (300 connections) I still see 320 sockets in /proc/pid/fd directory. > When I list them they are shown as sockets (597 -> socket:[21780] ) but if > I do stat I get the following: > > stat /proc/4776/fd/597 > File: "/proc/4776/fd/597" > Size: 0 Filetype: Unknown > Mode: (0777/?rwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > Device: 0,0 Inode:21780 Links: 1 > Access: Tue Apr 24 14:00:20 2001 > Modify: Tue Apr 24 14:00:20 2001 > Change: Tue Apr 24 14:00:20 2001 > > If I kill my server these files go away. The server calls shutdown to > close both the data socket and control socket for each connection. shutdown() does not close the descriptor; you have to call close(). -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org