Rob or anyone in the Forum
First let apologize by saying I do Know Assembler internals well but I am Learning sockets programming by the seat of my pants The Socket I did the Give/Take on hangs out there for a while meaning (its waiting for a read from the Client) After issuing the Accept for this connection I did a SETSOCKOPT with SO_LINGER option Apparently this didn't help because even though I did a Close on the new Socket to disassociate from the main program It probably still around and that is Why even after the CLOSE I get return code of 1 from the select Thankx again ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html