From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbVHaMja (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964777AbVHaMja (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:39:30 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:10250 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbVHaMj3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:39:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4315A663.3070903@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:45:23 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phy Prabab , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: odd socket behavior References: <20050830065344.86508.qmail@web51807.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050830065344.86508.qmail@web51807.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Phy Prabab 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? What do you see with lsof? Is there a process associated? I'm seeing something related with 2.6.13... -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me