tech-kern archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

Re: All (?) network tests failing



Robert Elz wrote:
> Not an idea, but a possibility - the change to route.c (1.167) was
> unimportant - it doesn't really matter (to the tests) if it does
> anything useful or not - it is possible that it just happened that the
> fd that the setsockopt() was being performed on was a socket (a suitable
> socket) prior to the openssl update, but after that, the rump fd's
> shifted around, and what the setsockopt() was operating upon was no
> longer a socket.
> 
> No idea if that is really what happened or not, but something like that
> is at least plausible (even though it would seem that the changes of the
> sys call having worked by accident seem to be not very high).

I agree that this sounds plausible.  Also, the tests never failing for
Christos might then be explained by him running them in an environment
that has a different number of file descriptors already in use.
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost


Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index