SPUG: Closing HTTP::Daemon port

[C.J. Collier]

What's netstat --inet say about the state of the socket?

C.J.


On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 02:59, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> Seems like I knew the answer to this at one time...
> 
> I'm running an HTTP::Daemon on Linux.  It responds to /quit by quitting,
> which it does by exiting its main loop and closing (and undef'ing) the
> HTTP::Daemon object (which is derived from IO::Socket::INET).  So far as I
> know I'm doing all the housekeeping properly.
> 
> After it quits, I restart it.  For almost a minute the port is still held
> and the HTTP::Daemon object can't be allocated.  I've timed it and it seems
> steady at about 55 seconds.
> 
> If I <ctrl-C> to KILL the program it doesn't seem to hold the port.  It
> doesn't hold the port running on Windows.
> 
> Is there a magic cookie for this?
> 
> mma
> 
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