Re: Socket stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:54:47 +0100 (BST)

> I quite understandably didn't get a response from Alan - either because
> I didn't provide enough info or it just got lost in the huge torrent of email
> he no doubt gets each day.

Its a bug. I've also been sent a possible fix for it if you want it. Its
sufficiently hard to cause (needs to be local) and peculiar I've got the fix
scheduled for 2.0.38pre1. "Fixing" a TCP bug this close to .37 is likely to
be bad engineering decision 8)

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