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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed1.tiac.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.147.226.2!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Zoombie socket on SunOs system Date: 7 Jul 1997 16:46:14 GMT Organization: The Duck Pond public unix - http://www.kfu.com/ Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5pr6gm$k16$1@phoenix.kfu.com> References: <5ovrfg$m3h$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quack.kfu.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3659 GRPR@dlep1.itg.ti.com (Pietro GROSSI) writes: > So I thinking : is possible track > and close the orphan process and related socked using system resouce o C > code ? Sure. Check out SO_KEEPALIVE in the setsockopt() man page. I believe SunOS will do a keepalive every 20 minutes, but I don't really know. It doesn't matter all that much. SO_KEEPALIVE is really intended to simply avoid having stale connections open for days and days. -- Nick Sayer http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | "But master, does not the fire nsayer [at] quack [dot] kfu [dot] com | need water too? Does not the UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL IS UNACCEPTABLE | mountain need the storm? Does not AND WILL BE CONSIDERED AS HARASSMENT | your scrotum need kicking?"