Re: SO_LINGER (ugh)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:56:20AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I agree with your analysis.  I think your current behavior is probably best.

Ok.
 
> As I read the Linux implementation, a
> process dying (even by SIGKILL) will just stick around and block until the
> (unbounded) linger timeout expires, before it reports death to its parent.
> We will certainly never have behavior like that!

Mmmh.  I think on exit the timeout does not apply (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:
inet_release):

                 * If the close is due to the process exiting, we never
                 * linger..
                 */
                timeout = 0;
                if (sk->linger && !(current->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
                        timeout = HZ * sk->lingertime;

Thanks,
Marcus

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