Bugs item #2828139, was opened at 2009-07-28 02:35
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Category: API
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: listmail (listmail)
>Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: libssh2_poll intermittent hang on Solaris (old version)
Initial Comment:
I'm still using libssh2-0.18 because I was getting new issues (basically no
output) when testing libssh2-1.1 on Solaris 10 + Net::SSH2. My guess is that
piece could be related to recent blocking changes in 1.1 since 1.0 worked with
the same code.
Anyway, The only problem I've had is that, at random, libssh2_poll will hang
indefinitely. It could be a couple of days or more or even just a matter of
minutes before this happens. I call a perl/Net::SSH2 app at regular intervals
to exec some "health check" commands on some servers. I finally tracked the
true hang down to the C recv() function call in libssh2_packet_read. The
following code from libssh2_poll is calling libssh2_packet_read consecutively
before recv eventually hangs. Its as if it was expected that there would be
data (since libssh2_packet_reads return value > 0), but recv ended up waiting
for more data.
(session.c, libssh2_poll, near #ifdef HAVE_POLL section)
case LIBSSH2_POLLFD_CHANNEL:
if (sockets[i].events & POLLIN) {
/* Spin session until no data available */
while (libssh2_packet_read(fds[i].fd.channel->session)
> 0);
}
(transport.c, libssh2_packet_read, I put before/after debug code here to catch
the hang)
/* now read a big chunk from the network into the temp buffer */
nread =
recv(session->socket_fd, &p->buf[remainbuf],
PACKETBUFSIZE - remainbuf,
LIBSSH2_SOCKET_RECV_FLAGS(session));
Simply removing the while loop avoids the hang and my initial tests are still
showing all expected data being returned. I'm not fluent in C nor do I
understand sockets. Should there be some additional poll done before each
iteration as if even though the return value indicates more packets there is a
chance recv could still hang? I see that you may be deprecating libssh2_poll
but right now I can't get 1.1 to read any output.
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>Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2009-07-28 19:30
Message:
Sorry, but we can't deal with bugs in old versions. In addition to this,
the libssh2_poll() function has been marked deprecated so we won't do any
bugfixing of that function at all. Switch to (non-blocking sockets and)
using plain normal poll() instead.
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