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In real world, there are timeouts on both modern transport layer and applications. Nothing is retried indefinitely these days.
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Accroding to rfc793
TCP FIN occupies one byte in sequence number space and
the FIN is considered to occur after the last actual data octet in a segment in which it occurs
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TCP connection is closed after certain number of unsuccessfull retransmissions. I think this number is 5.
This however only happens if there is actually a packets (segment) to be sent and retransmitted. If there are no outgoing segments, and keepalives are not used, then the socket is opened forever.
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