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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:54:36 +0200
From:	Stipe Tolj <tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Apache/PHP Problem:CLOSE_WAIT sockets
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> I don't know how many people are willing to download apache, set it up,
> and run it, to duplicate your problems.
> 
> So, you're welcome to keep asking for "the Cygwin Core team" to debug
> this but I suspect that you'll have a long wait unless you can dilute
> the problem into a simple test case.

the problem arises from Cygwin's socket handling in my view. 

In simple words: if many TCP connections are served by a cygwin
process (like httpd) something misterious happens to the socket
implementation and it seems to get bogus.  

> Or, if you have a failing condition, you might want to attach the debugger
> to it and poke around to see what is going on.  You will need to build
> a debugging version of cygwin to get any useful info of course.

I'm not in deep to cygwin internals to do this on my own, that's why I
kindly asked for help at the core developers.

Stipe

tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de
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