Thanks! The program (which has many threads) was spawning things that were hanging. I set my descriptors to close-on-exec. On Sun, 26 May 2002, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Frank Samuelson wrote: > > > For several minutes after my server program > > terminates, the sockets that it created remain in an ESTABLISHED state > > (according to netstat). > > Aren't the connections supposed to revert to a TIME_WAIT state? > > Are you fork()ing any children? If the descriptor is inherited, it > isn't "closed" until it is closed in every process. > > Try using "fuser" or "lsof" to see if any processes are associated > with the socket. > > -- > Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net> > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
