From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751104AbVH3HA5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:00:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751109AbVH3HA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:00:56 -0400 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:17420 "HELO relay02.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751104AbVH3HA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:00:56 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 67.187.99.138 From: Chase Venters To: Phy Prabab Subject: Re: odd socket behavior Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:01:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050830065344.86508.qmail@web51807.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050830065344.86508.qmail@web51807.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: Clientec, Inc. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508300201.12413.chase.venters@clientec.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The socket is probably just lingering. Check the socket manual page in section 7 (man 7 socket) for more information. On Tuesday 30 August 2005 01:53 am, you wrote: > Hello all, > > I am seeing something odd w/sockets. I have an app > that opens and closes network sockets. When the app > terminates it releases all fd (sockets) and exists, > yet running netstat after the app terminates still > shows the sockets as open! Am I doing something wrong > or is this something that is normal? > > TIA! > Phy > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/