At 09:04 AM 5/4/02 -0700, drieux wrote: my question is why the use of the while() construct in
> http://www.perldebugged.com/downloads/proxylog.txt > >hence the need to have the last LABEL construction??? > >especially as this appears to avoid the call to your >shutdown function - which seems to be doing an implicit >close based upon the exit..... Correct. >which has me a tad concerned about the > > $client->shutdown(2) if $client; > $server->shutdown(2) if $server; > >since it would seem that the former would prevent the >full on closer of the server side???? No, they both close okay, every time I've tried it, at least. But the "if $client/$server" is unnecessary... vestigial from a paste from the signal handler. >I may just be a bit too fussy here - but there are several >webSites I run into where they clearly are not doing >their socket connections correctly - as I get them >wedgied in the fin_wait state.... > >So I thought I would ask for a bit of 'what was the >idea behind this approach' .... Trying to make it as simple as possible. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]