On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Ramchandra Apte <maniandra...@gmail.com> wrote: > At least on Linux, if you kill a process using sockets, it takes about 10 > seconds for socket to be closed. A program should try to close all resources. > OS'es may take a long time to close a unclosed socket automatically.
Err, that's not my experience. When a process terminates, its resources are released promptly. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list