On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:05:57PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >>>What happens when a socket in FIN_WAIT2 is close()d, or a process exits > >>>and a socket is closed and ends up in FIN_WAIT2? If the FIN_WAIT2 timer > >>>is set to 2^31, what happens? > >> > >>making it clearer than I was able to do. > >Note: that's the only issue I can imagine. The other timers' being > >configurable obviously create no such problems. > > Ok, I confess that the plethora of TCP related timer values are not > something I have good familiarity with -- my concern was that > resources associated with a socket would outlive the handle by which > they were accounted (the associated open file).
The FIN-WAIT-2 timer is the only one that could, because it's the only one that relates to lingering resources (or TCP connection states where a socket/pcb could remotely linger). It may be the case that the socket wouldn't linger without the process lingering, but I don't know that. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
