Re: Question about SO_LINGER

2005-08-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, steve roussey wrote: > socket to shut down. Apache has a workaround called lingering_close() > that tries to address broken SO_LINGER implementations, but it also blocks." apache 1.x is single threaded / forked, so yeah it blocks. the implementation is there because very f

Re: Question about SO_LINGER

2005-08-10 Thread David S. Miller
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Question about SO_LINGER

2005-08-10 Thread steve roussey
In a conversation the other yesterday about web servers, this came up in conversation by another much more informed than I. I'm not sure if the information is up to date to current kernel builds, so I pose the question here: Does the linux kernel block on SO_LINGER? Here is paragraph in the other