Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Closing DECNET connections

[Steven W. <st...@gw...>]

Hi,

> 
> 
> > If you do that command on VMS then the Linux connections will timeout.
> > 
> The problem is, that I unfortunatelly dont have access to VAX/VMS
> machines at all because they belong to our customer (I am implementing
> part of SLM and all I have are DECNET addresses of VAX machines). So my
> only possibility is to clear connections from Linux, which is impossible
> or only possible by rebooting the machine. Or am I wrong?
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
It looks from your description as if that is very much the case. I'm sure
that this didn't use to happen as surely someone (me even!) would have
noticed it before. I've been rather busy lately and not had the time to
check this bug out properly. At least I can't see why its happening from
the code.

If someone knows that it never happens on a kernel of a particular version
please post to the list (or just to me personally) as that will no doubt
give me a bit clue as to what the problem is.

The way that sockets shut down is completely independant to whether a signal
has been received by the process or not. Thats the odd thing. I don't see
why its a problem only when signals have been involved,

Steve.