Re: SO_KEEPALIVE - a solution for where X servers are shut down?

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:52:25PM +0100, Nick Hill wrote:
> If the TCP socket is closed by the kernel, will X apps also close,
> thereby freeing redundant resources?

Yes.

> If this would work, can anyone consider a reason not to enable SO_KEEPALIVE?

It might cause problems which e.g. use a notebook as X11 server and
suspend it. Without such a change the X11 clients will survive, with
the change they'll be killed.

The best solution is probably to make that optional.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/