On 11-Jul-2000 Bruce Thompson wrote:
> Actually, it's a feature. :-)
(snip)
> ... Once sufficient time has gone by to guarantee that no additional
> segments may be received then the socket is reclaimed.
>
> This is standard TCP behavior, the difference here is that Palm OS
> has a very tight limit on the number of sockets that can be in this
> state.
The bug I was referring to was that PalmOS waits forever and never terminates
the linger state. Try it. I've waited over 20 minutes without bringing down
the network connection and it never recycled any of the 16 sockets.
> Setting linger to zero will help, but won't eliminate the delay.
Actually another Palm engineer (Jim Schram, thread "Socket woes
(netErrTooManyTCPConnections)" from Jan 2000) looked through the PalmOS code
a few months ago and posted that work-around since nobody else could figure
out how to do it. Setting linger to zero absolutely does work and I've run
through sockets at rapid pace and never run out. I like linger but it is
supposed to be like 2 minutes or something and not infinite. Perhaps this is
fixed in OS 3.5.
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