Re: Socket stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state
Collins M. Ben (bmc@visi.net)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:05:13 -0400
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:44:51PM +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Its a bug. I've also been sent a possible fix for it if you want it. Its
> > sufficiently hard to cause (needs to be local) and peculiar I've got the fix
> > scheduled for 2.0.38pre1. "Fixing" a TCP bug this close to .37 is likely to
> > be bad engineering decision 8)
>
> Alan, this bug also occurs in the 2.2.x kernels (at least, 2.2.5 & 2.2.6).
> This scares me because I tend to annoy a lot of people on IRC 8) I guess
> I'll have to be nice to people for a while until the fix gets into
> 2.2.7...
I can confirm this on 2.2.x kernels on both i386 and sparc. Thought it was
a glibc problem and have been hunting it down for quite awhile.
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