Closing non-blocking network sockets

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What about SO_LINGER? Some sockets will have the default value for
SO_LINGER, some will have it forced off.

What happens if a non-blocking socket has SO_LINGER turned on? Does the
close fail completely, or is the socket queued for a automated close
after the linger period (most likely)?

Either way we lose track of a used FD until it is fully shut down.

/Henrik

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Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:49 MDT