Folks, I remember a message about this recently and tried googling for it but came up empty. I'm running a bunch of "poker bots" from ghci and although I'm calling hClose on the socket handle, it does not seem to actually close when my bots finish. I need to exit ghci for the sockets to close. How can I tackle this problem? It's important for me that the sockets close when I call hClose . Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/