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Kylotan · 01-09-2009, 05:24 AM

It's not important. Maybe 18 years ago when DIKU first started out, file handles and/or sockets were a more limited resource and therefore you didn't want non-players consuming them. These days, it's probably not an issue unless you have hundreds of simultaneous players.

Nothing. TCP connections are quite happy to sit there idle for days. Certain network conditions might cause the connection to be broken, perhaps only when one side or the other attempts to send some data, but that doesn't matter to you really.

01-09-2009, 05:24 AM	#3
Kylotan Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK Home MUD: Abattoir (Smaug) Home MUD: ex-Jellybean (Smaug) Home MUD: ex-Dark Chambers (Merc) Posts: 174	Re: ROM sockets : no communication for long time It's not important. Maybe 18 years ago when DIKU first started out, file handles and/or sockets were a more limited resource and therefore you didn't want non-players consuming them. These days, it's probably not an issue unless you have hundreds of simultaneous players. Nothing. TCP connections are quite happy to sit there idle for days. Certain network conditions might cause the connection to be broken, perhaps only when one side or the other attempts to send some data, but that doesn't matter to you really.