sockets,threads and interupts

[Ramchandra Apte]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 21:29:12 UTC+5:30, Ramchandra Apte  wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:34:32 UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico  wrote:
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> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > Err, that's not my experience. When a process terminates, its
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> It is not guaranteed so a program shouldn't presume.
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