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#88 Inetd mode on non-tcp streams

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nobody
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2008-10-02
2008-10-02
clohr
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Hi,
The «inetd» mode works well providing Xtightvnc server is launched by a real inetd superserver that actually carry input/output streams through a real TCP socket.
However, in some cases it may be usefull to carry the VNC protocol through others types of bytes streams links (e.g. a serial line, unix socket, some VPN solutions, etc.)
It is not possible with version 1.3.9: the server fails on "setsockopt(inetdSock, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,...)" (See lines 102 to 106 of "Xvnc/programs/Xserver/hw/vnc/sockets.c"). The server does assume that the "inetdSock" file descriptor that is passed to it is a real TCP socket.

So, may I suggest to simply removes the "exit(1);" in case of setsockopt failure, the one just after the "rfbLogPerror("setsockopt");" (wich is rater a Warning and not an Error).

Regards.

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