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Does Windows take care of closing sockets when processes exit?
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I've read up this question about Linux, Can a port be bound when the process has terminated? Linux appears to clean up after processes exiting, and leaving open sockets. I was wondering if there's any specification about how this works on Windows. Does the OS consistently take care of closing socke…
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On both Windows and Unixen, when a process exits the kernel closes all open handles. Windows NT Terminating a Process – MSDN Terminating a process has the following results: [...] Any resources allocated by the process are freed. All kernel objects …
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