[ale] Forcing the TIME_WAIT issue

[Fulton Green]

This sounds familar from my socket programming days. You probably need to
find a way to trap SIGINT and/or SIGHUP and explicitly close the client
socket in the signal-handling routine. Obviously, SIGKILL can't be handled
by that routine.

HTH. Now, if *someone* would at least give me a clue on my earlier
question ...

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:52:53PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> I posted something similar to this awhile back, but don't think I ever got
> a definitive answer.
> 
> I have a Tcl module that listens on port 2000 on Solaris 2.6. When I stop
> the process (essentially a kill), it leaves the port in TIME_WAIT for
> approx. 4 minutes iirc.  I understand the logic behind this, but is there
> anyway to free up the port and force it out of TIME_WAIT?

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