RE: ServerSocket not being closed properly.

[GOMEZ Henri]

>I think you have a lucky VM/OS - close() on the accepting 
>socket doesn't
>stop the accept() thread ( at least not on Linux/JDK1.3 ). 

That's right on Linux Redhat 6.2 and glibc 2.1.x and IBM JDK 1.3.

But it seems to work fine on Redhat 7.0 which use a glibc 2.2.

But the fundamental step for the Linux community is kernel 2.4
found for example in Redhat 7.1, and I consider that Redhat 7.0
is just an interim release.