[fpc-pascal]unix tcp server - filedescriptors problem

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Karagiannidis Savvas wrote:

> I noticed, that when a tcp server accepts a connection and finally the connection is closed, either when the client disconnects, or the server closes the connection, there remains a file descriptor open! Using lsof, or in /proc/(processID)/fd, I can see the file descriptor. At first I thought that the file descriptor whould be there, as long as the connection would be in TIME_WAIT state, but I was wrong.
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> Is this behaviour normal?
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> If the server accepts connections at fast rates, then the result is Too many open files Errors...

This is normal. The solution to this should be a call to setsockopt()
with the SO_REUSEADDR option.

Michael.