Hi,
Well if Jim says it's so, it's so. :-) I'll do a quick look see
in the bug database to see if this has been posted/fixed and if it
hasn't been filed as a bug I'll file it.
Cheers,
Bruce.
At 18:19 +0000 7/11/00, Chris Faherty wrote:
>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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