I have a lovely server working that accepts client connections, forks off a nice module and processes their data. Then, the client nicely hangs up and the child exits.

However, if the client is disconnected before it signals that it's done, the child stays around forever waiting for input.

This leads to quite the population explosion.

I'm using the classic sockets-with-select loop for input, but I can't seem to get a timeout working.

My problem seems to be with the accept call which doesn't ever timeout, even when setting the timeout value in the socket definition. This must be a pretty common issue, so what do you guys do?

I'll be happy to post a snippet of code, but it's a textbook listener using IO::Select for multiple connections.

Declarent

In reply to Can I timeout an accept call? by Declarent

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