Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:44:51 +0100 (GMT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: Socket stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state |
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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)
Alan, this bug also occurs in the 2.2.x kernels (at least, 2.2.5 & 2.2.6). This scares me because I tend to annoy a lot of people on IRC 8) I guess I'll have to be nice to people for a while until the fix gets into 2.2.7...
Cheers, Alex -- "A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"
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