Re: [gamin] gamin abstract socket bind() probem

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 08:38, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   I have been looking at this (starting gnome-session in an xterm + twm
> environemnt has some fun :-), we cannot avoid the race, this would require
> to make some locking (and I don't want to rely on this unless I really 
> don't have any other way). There is really no hard constraint in all that
> code and the kernel garantees there is only one server running (per user/
> session id), and even that could be relaxed without semantic breakage.
>   The related code is in gamin_connect_unix_socket() in gam_api.c
> even if another process concurrently forked a gam_server between the time
> of the connect() and when it actually started this should not fail. Somehow
> I rather think it's the timeout which is too low, I'm gonna increase the
> value and change the retry code to always retry from the start by closing the
> fd and reinitializing the socket, just in case.


With your changes in todays CVS the problem still happens.

John