Re: [Evolution-hackers] Closing a NSS connection

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:02 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 13:53 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > I don't think just doing a PR_Close is sufficient. I think you need to
> > do a PR_Shutdown too. GMail's IMAP server, for example, after pressing
> > really often connect-disconnect, will otherwise ban you from authent-
> > icating for a few minutes.
> > 
> > I think this patch can be 1:1 applied to upstream Camel.
> > 
> > http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/3135
> 
> Yeah, I think Philip's right.  The NSPR API documentation for PR_Close
> [1] and PR_Shutdown [2] is not very helpful, but I did manage to find
> this:
> 
>         Once the exchange has been accomplished, the transport is shut
>         down with a call to PR_Shutdown, as shown in line 106. This
>         operation effectively disables any further use of the file
>         descriptor for anything other than closing it. The call to
>         PR_Shutdown does not, however, eliminate the need to close the
>         descriptor. The call to PR_Close is in main() (the creator the
>         the TCP stream) and is required to reclaim the resources used by
>         the runtime to support the connection.  [3]
> 
> So I'll commit this for 2.21.4.
Thanks Matt and Philip.

-Srini