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Re: sockets without processes



On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:25:27AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
> tcp  0  0 192.168.14.6:32884  mailhost:smtp   TIME_WAIT   -                   
> tcp  0  0 192.168.14.6:32885  mailhost:smtp   TIME_WAIT   -                   
> tell me nothing about the process owning them.
> i am merely wondering why this is possible...

The clue is in the "TIME_WAIT" flag.  The socket is in the late stage
of shutting down, probably because the process that opened that socket
is no longer running.  If the process isn't running anymore, netstat
can't get at information about that process, since it doesn't keep
historical process data.

-- 
Bob Galloway                  "Vote Christia!  I'm nice!"
                                                          -- Christia Mulvey



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