[Live-devel] How can I release the port 8854 used by test programs

Jeremy jeremy at electrosilk.net
Mon Aug 21 22:23:16 PDT 2006


Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> Dear All:
>>       Every time after I run a test program in the directory 
>> /testProgs, I found the port 8854 was still occupied.
>>     
>
> Are you sure that each test program is exiting?  If it does, then the 
> OS should release the port afterwards.
>
>
>   
If it exits while in a debugger it is quite common for the port to not
be released. You have to exit the debugger or have explicit code in the
app to close the port.


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