From a844115043fe5d7cfaf15f9818b9c410e1f33b89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: valenok <devnull@localhost>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:31:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] close_socket_gracefully(): set linger option to prevent port
 exhaustion

---
 mongoose.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mongoose.c b/mongoose.c
index c7337c03..14f34be9 100644
--- a/mongoose.c
+++ b/mongoose.c
@@ -3691,8 +3691,15 @@ static void reset_per_request_attributes(struct mg_connection *conn) {
 
 static void close_socket_gracefully(SOCKET sock) {
   char buf[BUFSIZ];
+  struct linger linger;
   int n;
 
+  // Set linger option to avoid socket hanging out after close. This prevent
+  // ephemeral port exhaust problem under high QPS.
+  linger.l_onoff = 1;
+  linger.l_linger = 1;
+  setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, &linger, sizeof(linger));
+
   // Send FIN to the client
   (void) shutdown(sock, SHUT_WR);
   set_non_blocking_mode(sock);