I wasn't sure which group to send this too but -hackers seemed more
appropriate than -questions. I've started to play with sockets
under FreeBSD and have created a very simple server. All it does is
listens (on port 2525 by default) and when it receives a connection
fork()s. The only
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, G-der wrote:
I've attached the code for your enjoyment...I'm sure someone will be able
to point out my mistake pretty quickly. Also I've found a couple of web
pages that kind of explain socket handling but am looking for other
resources that I can consult.
You never
Thank you everyone for your replies. The bug was a pretty silly one and
one that I should have caught just stepping through the code.
The call to signal() to install the handler was beging made after the
fork(). So the children had a handler installed but not the parent. I
moved the
G-der wrote:
This is a first attempt for me but I seem to have problems when it comes
to ensuring that all the children exit like they should. What happens is
that each child process remains in a zombied state (as seen through ps).
Also if you check sockstat you can see that each zombied
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