[En-Nut-Discussion] CLOSE-WAIT Status TCP sockets

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Tue Jul 22 10:22:54 CEST 2003


Ralph,

Isn't CLOSE-WAIT indicating, that the socket needs to be closed
by the application?


>If so should close wait be added to the list of sockets that get destroyed
>after a time wait?

There may be a bug in the stack, which keeps the socket in
CLOSE-WAIT even after the application closed the socket.
IMHO it would make more sense in that case to fix the bug.

Can you please check if your application reliably closes
the socket?

Harald




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