Re: 2.0.13 Sockets Stuck on close

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:35:10 +0100 (BST)


> makes sense, because any socket in TCP_CLOSE shouldn't even show up on
> netstat (because it simply isn't there any more). Maybe "netstat" has a
> bug and reports the wrong state?

A socket in TCP_CLOSE can show up because an application may have done
a shutdown() but not a close on the socket.

Alan