>As part of the shutdown, we are terminating all the processes using SIGKILL. >We are expecting the tipc sockets to be closed >automatically by the kernel after some time. > >But sometimes ‘tipc socket list’ is still showing a few sockets as alive. > >Now when we restart the application, the system has two sockets with the same >tipc address. > Did your check Gary Duzan's comment ? " If the program is forking off processes, perhaps the child processes aren't closing the socket file descriptor. Using fcntl() to set FD_CLOEXEC on the descriptor in the parent may help."
Another thing is you need to make sure that your processes are actually killed (not hung or become zombie). > >Isn't the tipc sockets should have been closed automatically by the kernel >once the application is killed ? > They are closed if application is actually killed. _______________________________________________ tipc-discussion mailing list tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tipc-discussion
