On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:00:11 +0100, Andreas Røsdal wrote:

> hi,
> I have a question about C sockets. Is this possible:
> 1. start application, and establish socket connection.
> 2. quit application, without closing connections (!!)
> 3. restart application, and continue using old connections?
>
> Andreas R.

Not as described. You might consider having the initial startup spawn a
second process that will persist (see fork(2), various others) to maintain
the connections, that your application connects and disconnects from.

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