hi, I want to understand the behavior of epoll - how is behaves when the process which has some sockets registered with epoll does a fork(). These are the aspects that I am particularly interested in 1. What if the child process never closes the sockets that it has inherited from the parent, and then proceeds to do exec. a) I understand that on fork() all of the parent's (P) open sockets are inherited by child (C) b) If C doesnt care to close Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://cricket.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html