Unix Domain Socket Limitation?

Norton Allen allen@huarp.harvard.edu
Mon Nov 30 18:26:32 GMT 2020


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.




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