[Xastir] New Xastir port

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> > Assuming it isn't something peculiar about your system that is doing
> > it, one thing that usually works well is to set the KEEPALIVE flag
> > so that Xastir tries to send some out-of-band data periodically just
> > to keep a stream alive.  If a connection doesn't go end-to-end,
> > Xastir will detect it at that point.
>
> This is a programming thing, and option to set on the socket once
> you have it connected.

Added to CVS.  Update later today and then see if the fix works
better for you.  It should detect downed socket connections much
more quickly and get rid of the zombie processes.

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