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Subject: RE: socket not closed in a threaded server
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:26:33 +0100
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sylvain DELHOMME wrote on 25 September 2008 09:23:

> While playing with sockets and threads, I noticed that while my tcp
> socket is correctly closed, the associated udp socket (managed by Cygwin)
> is not. This was tested with(out) Firewall && Antivirus on 2 WinXP
> computers with cygwin 1.5.25.
> 
> Is that a known problem with Cygwin (code is fine under Linux Debian) ?

  The "associated udp" socket is an internal thing managed by winsock; it's
standard OS behaviour and happens to native win32 programs as well.  It's used
for some kind of internal loopbacky rpc-ish thingy and you can ignore it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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