Hi all,

I've searched around and found some useful references for using HTTP::Daemon, and have got a simple web server up and running very easily using this module and the examples from Randall etc. I fork a child to do some work from the main daemon and that works just fine and dandy.

My problem is that sometimes (Solaris 2.8 BTW), when i kill my daemon during testing and start it again on the same PORT i get "Address already in use", and i can't seem to see why, as the process i was running is clearly dead.

Now its doesn't always fail, just sometimes. I scoped out netstat -a on my port and found a WAIT_TIME entry for my port number, but wasn't sure if this was related or not? eventually the PORT does become free, but i haven't managed to track down exactly when yet.

I know this isn't strictly perl, but it might be, and am trying to rule it out. Is there a particular way i should kill the process, currently just Ctrl C, to make sure that any hanging resources are released?

Thx in advance and Rgds Richard

In reply to HTTP:Daemon : Address already in use by rugwuk

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