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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:04:22 +1000
Subject: Re: sockets,threads and interupts
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> wrote:
> At least on Linux, if you kill a process using sockets, it takes about 10 seconds for socket to be closed. A program should try to close all resources. OS'es may take a long time to close a unclosed socket automatically.

Err, that's not my experience. When a process terminates, its
resources are released promptly.

ChrisA