On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:03:56PM +0530, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use get/setsockopt for SO_LINGER option but am facing a 
> problem
> I used setsockopt with opt as SO_LINGER passing linger structure with 
> l_onoff as 1 and l_linger as 65535
> but when I try to get back through getsockopt, I am getting l_onoff as 
> 128 and l_linger as -1.
> For other values of l_linger (like 1, 2, 10) during set, though I get 
> l_onoff as 128 but l_linger is returned correctly

I suspect this has something to do with:
    /usr/include/sys/socketvar.h:   short    so_linger;
and:
    /usr/include/sys/socket.h: #define SO_LINGER     0x0080

	David

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