From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266436AbUG0RJZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:09:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266466AbUG0RJZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:09:25 -0400 Received: from madrid10.amenworld.com ([62.193.203.32]:7698 "EHLO madrid10.amenworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266436AbUG0RJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:09:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:10:25 +0200 From: DervishD To: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The dreadful CLOSE_WAIT Message-ID: <20040727171025.GA26146@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040727083947.GB31766@DervishD> <20040727160057.GE2334@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040727160057.GE2334@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Pleyades Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi William :) * William Lee Irwin III dixit: > > Seems under Linux that, when a connection is in the CLOSE_WAIT > > state, the only wait to go to LAST_ACK is the application doing the > > 'shutdown()' or 'close()'. Doesn't seem to be a timeout for that. > Probably best to implement timeouts by hand in your network daemon. Of course, this is a bug in the application, but anyway the kernel (IMHO) shouldn't allow this. Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/