Client disconnects, XPAT search doesn't stop ....

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Sep 22 22:27:57 UTC 2005


Christiaan den Besten <chris at prolocation.net> writes:

> Does anybody know why a XPAT request continious to look for results,
> even after the client has already disconnected ? Looking at one of our
> spools I see lots of "nnrpd" in "CLOSE_WAIT" state, but the search just
> goes on.

I'm not sure that nnrpd is going to notice that the client has gone away
until it writes data to the client, which as I recall it doesn't do until
the XPAT search finishes.

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