[xdebug-general] Re: debugclient msg about AF_INET socket

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Anil T Samuel wrote:

> I get the following message repeatedly with debugclient.
>
> [asamuel[@]stacv61 php-5.2.5]$ ../xdebug/debugclient
> Xdebug Simple DBGp client (0.10.0)
> Copyright 2002-2007 by Derick Rethans.
> bind: couldn't bind AF_INET socket?

If you close down a process that still listens on a socket, the
Operating System will keep the socket reserved for some time (TIME_WAIT
state). The debugclient will retry every 5 seconds until the OS frees
it. This is normal behavior.

regards,
Derick

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