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    Seriously Weird

    When I use netstat, it shows the sockets my application is using. Great. However, randomly it starts showing them under a completely different program: sh. It started happening at least since I started stress testing it over 1000+ sockets (file descriptors). It could have been happening before that, I don't know I had other issues to work out. I'm using Asio.

    Does anybody have the slightest idea what could be happening here?

    The process id for sh seems to change too.. 5365/sh, 4192/sh, 1736/sh.

    Then, out of the blue, it starts showing them back under my program name. It goes back and forth every 3-10 minutes. I feel this may also be causing a bug where all of my sockets suddenly go invalid.

    What the heck? Any information greatly appreciated!
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    You do know that sh is bash/the shell? Not that that totally explains this, but it makes it somewhat less strange.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
    You do know that sh is bash/the shell? Not that that totally explains this, but it makes it somewhat less strange.
    Ya I forgot to mention that's what I thought sh might be, and I am running it from a terminal (sh shows up in the system monitor - but I didn't think it's process id changed - so it must be using the terminal process id).

    So somehow my application is switching it's parenthood of the file descriptors to the shell I'm running the application under?

    I wonder if this could be a socket.cancel() bug.. ran into it on Windows but Asio had a macro fix.

    I'll keep tweaking and looking around.
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    May be your program from time to time use system() function ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valery Reznic View Post
    May be your program from time to time use system() function ?
    That's my guess as well. All open file descriptors get propagated to any child process. A call to system() would definitely show up as "sh" in the process list.
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    //{
    	if (a) do { f( b); } while(1);
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    A little too late but that was it guys. I didn't know that's how it worked, thanks.

    I was opening netstat with popen() from within my application.

    Is there any way to avoid that from happening? I'd like to get a count of how many real connections my application is using (monitor).

    It might have been doing that because of canceling sockets, it appears unreliable in Asio - I'm not always getting my callbacks, which means the sockets don't always get closed. That might cause the sockets to appear under a different process. Might be something else. I'm gonna try a different solution - pass my callbacks to a deadline timer.
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