Hi Edwin, > > But both are necessary: (close S) to free the socket file descriptor, > > and (task S) to remove the corresponding entry from the list in '*Run'. > > is this in the context of multiple picolisp processes? figured S is > just a socket and calling (close) in a non forking server would be ok?
It doesn't matter whether there are multiple picolisp processes: Both the open file descriptor, and the list of tasks in '*Run', are private to each process. So if you just close the file descriptor, but don't remove it from the task list, you'll get a "Key conflict" error when the next time a new socket with that file descriptor number is assigned a 'task', or when the event handler processing '*Run' passes the closed file descriptor to select(2). Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
