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How to check a socket state (UNIX)
I'm writing an FTP client (Perl 5.005_03) and I'm having problems with sockets in TIME_WAIT state. In know after closing a socket they have to hang around for a while, but if I run my app again straight after it exits then it hangs as the first socket it tries is still in TIME_WAIT. I'm...
