#207 TCP Socket stops listening ?

[Heiko Weber]

I have written an Server Application started from the
sample server. I used SocketPort & SocketService, as in
the example.
If have noticed that sometimes the server is still listen
on the server port ('netstat -a' tells this), but if I tellnet
to the port, the server don't start a new session. I can
not reproduce the error, it only comes up 'sometimes' (I
like this :-)
I am on FreeBSD 4.10 here.
Anyone else has seen this before or has an idea ?
I tried to attach with gdb to the running server, but the
thread support of gdb looks not perfect ('info threads'
only reports one thread ...).

Best regards
Heiko

[David Sugar]

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I recall FreeBSD, prior to libkse, and now 5.3, uses a kind of user mode
threading implimentation. I do recall there are quirks and oddities from
this related to threads being improperly blocked while waiting on select
calls in libc_r, and I suspect, offhand, that something of this behavior may
be involved in this report. If I get a chance to setup a FreeBSD 4.x test
system, I will be happy to look into this further.