[omniORB] Forks, BOA, ports and persistence

[Michel Vayssade]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Nick Brook wrote:
> associated with that object. In fact I can kill ALL the parents /
> grandparents / etc. leaving only the children and STILL all these ports
> are LISTENing. But there's no process around that could be doing the
> LISTENing, unless the child process is somehow listening all every port
> that has ever been used by a BOA. Weird.

when a process is LISTENing, there is a descriptor open on the socket
when the process forks, the child heritates all descriptors
the child must close the descriptor associated with the initial
parent's socket
isn't ?

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