On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<han...@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> I bet there will soon be a timewaitd which handles the not configurable
> (David has rejected all those patches so far) timeout of TIME_WAIT
> sockets. And I bet it will be used. :/

No, SOCK_DESTROY has no effect on TCP_TIME_WAIT sockets or any other
non-full socket.

When called on any socket where sk_fullsock(sk) is false, it returns
EOPNOTSUPP because there is nothing to do. Its purpose is to interrupt
blocked userspace socket calls, not to release resources.
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