Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Closing DECNET connections

[Steven W. <st...@gw...>]

Hi,

> 
> Hi,
> 
> >It looks from your description as if that is very much the case. I'm
> sure
> >that this didn't use to happen as surely someone (me even!) would have
> >noticed it before. I've been rather busy lately and not had the time to
> >check this bug out properly. At least I can't see why its happening
> from
> >the code.
> 
> I would like to try some older version where the problem doesn't occur.
> Can you
> tell me which version should I try?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
Patrick says that it happens in 2.4.0, so you could try something older than
that, but I certainly wouldn't recommend using it for production at all. It
seems that there is a real bug here, but I'm unfortunately rather short of
time to investigate it right now.

I wonder if its actually a DECnet system call that gets interrupted in
such a way as to get a reference count wrong during the exit code path
and thus the socket never gets destroyed.

Its odd because when the process exits, the release method should be called
for the socket and that has all the socket shut down code in it so whatever
happens it should work, though I know it doesn't,

Steve.