Re: Unix Domain Socket Limitation?

[Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>]

On 11/30/2020 6:19 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/30/2020 1:26 PM, Norton Allen wrote:
>> On 11/30/2020 1:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> I can reproduce the hang, and it happens if I use the new AF_UNIX 
>>> code also. But what I'm seeing (at least with the new code) isn't 
>>> exactly what you describe.
>>>
>>> When the server's first select call returns, accept succeeds. The 
>>> server then calls select a second time, and that call doesn't 
>>> return. I haven't checked yet to see what's going on in the client, 
>>> and I may not get to that for a while.
>>>
>> That's good news, and seems to be consistent with my theory that it 
>> is some sort of race condition that might be particularly sensitive 
>> to system-specific timing. I am compiling cygwin1.dll now.
>
> Hi Norton,
>
> I think there's a mistake in your test program.  Shouldn't 
> client_pselect() be waiting for the socket to be write-ready rather 
> than read-ready?  Here's a quote from the Posix page for 'connect':
>
> If the connection cannot be established immediately and O_NONBLOCK is 
> set for the file descriptor for the socket, connect() shall fail and 
> set errno to [EINPROGRESS], but the connection request shall not be 
> aborted, and the connection shall be established asynchronously....
>
> When the connection has been established asynchronously, pselect(), 
> select(), and poll() shall indicate that the file descriptor for the 
> socket is ready for writing.
>
Yes, you are correct. In fact I had already fixed that bug on another 
branch, then forgot to update it on this one. I also noticed another bug 
in calculating width. Now I am not getting the blocking behavior but 
instead getting the wrong bits set in select(). I think I'd better pick 
this up in the morning when I am thinking straight!