What does the setSoLinger option do?

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What does the setSoLinger option do?

It allows you to control a TCP socket close() method. eg.

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the socket.close() method will block until the the data that is still
in the send-buffer is sent to the other end and acknowledged. If the linger
delay has passed (5000 milliseconds in this case), the socket will be forced
to be closed.

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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