[Info-vax] Nonexisting "Owner process" of a device.

[abrsvc]

I ran into a similar problem with socket connections and deletions taking too long to complete which would sometimes show up as described by the OP.  In order to alleviate this, we changed the design a bit to use a single socket as the "connection" port and dispatched a "working" socket number to the requester.  This prevented repeated creation/deletion actions by using a collection of existing sockets and just connecting/disconnecting from them.  We did also allow for the deletion of the sockets when security demanded it and recreated them too.  Since this deletion/creation happened outside of active sockets, the time "cost" was hidden.

This method might also work for this case.

Dan