Hi,

I'm trying to write a client/server program with threads. I close the socket once the connexion is finished. The servers gets plenty of new connexions, and the socket number (file descriptor) increases very quickly: after 5 minutes running I was already at around file descriptor number 800!

Is this a normal thing? Do threads share file descriptors? When I do close(sockfd); is the number released immediatly or after a some time?

PS: I used to do with fork(), and I didn't have this issue. Thanks