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When TCP sockets refuse to die

by Marek idea.popcount.org 17 min read

While working on our Spectrum server , we noticed something weird: the TCP sockets which we thought should have been closed were lingering around. We realized we don't really understand when TCP sockets are supposed to time out!

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