Hi John,
 I haven't been able to do a full test cycle yet, but so far the changes 
you made in revision 1570 have solved the issues on Sparc Solaris. I 
should be able to test on more platforms in the coming days.

Thanks!

John Calcote wrote:
> Jim,
>
> After thinking about it for a while, I realized why service 
> registration with slptool shows up for a short time and then 
> disappears. It's because I fixed the pid-watcher functionality a while 
> back in the 2.0 source base. It was totally broken in 1.x.
>
> According to the SLP spec, a UA registers its services with a timeout 
> value. When the timeout expires, the local SA automatically expires 
> the registration. I can't remember what the default timeout value is, 
> but I think it's like 5 minutes. That means every 5 minutes, the UA is 
> responsible for re-registering all of its advertised services.
>
> Well, okay, not bad, but the pid-watcher extension was supposed to 
> alleviate UAs of this chore by having the local SA watch the pids of 
> all registering UAs. When a pid goes missing because the UA shut down 
> or something, then the SA automatically deregisters the service during 
> the next alarm signal handler (default, 5 second intervals).
>
> This explains why slptool was failing to create a long-term 
> registration - slptool only runs for as long as it takes to perform 
> the operation. During the next alarm event, the SA terminates the 
> registration because slptool's pid is gone.
>
> To be clear, the system is working just fine. I'll look into how to 
> get slptool to establish long-term registrations - probably just not 
> use the pid-watcher functionality in slptool (the client can control 
> whether pid-watcher extension is used with a flag on the slp handle it 
> uses against the UA library).
>
> John
>
> jim marshall wrote:
>> Hi John, et al...
>>  I have compiled the latest svn tree on Solaris, the slpd program 
>> appears to start however; when I try to use slptool it returns
>>
>> $ ./slptool register service:myserv.http://localhost "(attr1=val1)"
>> errorcode: -19
>>
>> This is the same error that my service gets when it tries to register
>>
>> Debugging slptool it appears that slptool is successfully sending a 
>> message via SLPNetworkSendMessage but when we go into 
>> SLPNetworkRecvMessage the select call always returns 0.
>>
>> The only 'odd' thing I noticed is that that in 
>> 'SLPNetworkCreateDatagram' the following call is made:
>>
>> 110              setsockopt(result, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVLOWAT,
>> (gdb) n
>> 112              setsockopt(result, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDLOWAT,
>> (gdb) print errno
>> $56 = 99
>>
>> as you can see the first setsockopt call is failing with errno set to 
>> 99 (Option not supported by protocol). Dunno if that means anything 
>> or not (I presume not since there is no check for the setsockopt 
>> result).
>>
>> As an aside I am having a different issue on Windows:
>>
>> C:\bin>slptool register service:myserv.x://myhost.com 
>> "(attr1=val1),(attr2=val2)"
>> C:\bin>slptool findsrvs service:myserv.x
>> C:\bin>slptool deregister service:myserv.x://myhost.com
>> (de)registration errorcode -3
>>
>> It appears that the slpd on Windows is having a similar issue??
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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