Hi Fabrizio, It looks like this was never dealt with. Is there a useful way to check the return code and recover? Pete On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:10:35PM -0500, Gregory J. Sharp wrote: > The latest version of xrootd (20041214) is causing us some headaches. > We are getting repeated disconnections twixt client and server. This > may be our fault, but I don't think so. Anyway, in the process it > revealed a serious problem that is not our fault. > > In XrdClientPhyConnection.cc the method BuildMessage has the call (at > approx. line 402) > > m->ReadRaw(this); > > ReadRaw returns an error code (throwing an exception might have been > better) if there was a socket error of some sort. This error is not > checked for and so it loops in(de)finitely, printing error messages in > the logs, but not actually dying or trying to reconnect, or anything > user friendly. > > I will get back to you about the problem of the disconnects if I figure > out why they are happening. > > (Does anybody read Henry Spencer's "The 10 Commandments of C > Programming" anymore? Yea! Verily!!) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------