RE: Socket woes (netErrTooManyTCPConnections)

[Alexander Hinds]

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thanks for the follow-up.  at least i know to stop beating my head against
my desk ;-)

any idea if this will be fixed in a future version of the os?  ;-)

> > > I'm working on a TCP/IP Palm app that opens and closes *a lot*
> > of sockets.
>
> >the *one* thing that i've found that works is if I do this (and have
> >something like a 10-15 second delay) and it's totally gross, but...:
>
> >    //set the socket's SO_LINGER option to "0", so it'll close
> immediately
> >    //when we call NetLibSocketClose()
> >    ltype.onOff = true;
> >    ltype.time = 0;
> >    retVal = NetLibSocketOptionSet(AppNetRefnum, sock,
> >              netSocketOptLevelSocket, netSocketOptSockLinger, &ltype,
> sizeof(ltype), -1, &err);
>
>
> I talked to a Palm engineer and he said that's what Palm's code does as a
> workaround.
>
>
> -Roger Flores
>
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