On September 16, 2009, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:15:05AM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > > On September 15, 2009, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> > > > Well, actually we do have this problem. I'm making the Windmill tests > > > run in a subclass of AppServerLayer, which starts an SMTP server. After > > > windmill and the SMTP server is stopped, libuuid has started listening > > > on the port the SMTP server used. I've worked around it for now by > > > stopping the server before starting Windmill, since I don't think any > > > tests use it, but I'd like to solve this properly. > > > > Since that's in our code, we should probably do the same thing. Catch > > the port already in use and find another port. > > Yeah, I'll look into it. > > BTW, I did find out why this is happening. Windmill uses libuuid, which > forks a process that inherits the parent process' file descriptors, > including the open ports. > Ah, then this is a bug in libuuid I guess. It should closes all unused open filedescriptor after forking. I guess it doesn't do an exec after the fork, otherwise they would automatically be closed. -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected]
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