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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0004611 | GNUnet | cadet service | public | 2016-08-09 12:52 | 2018-06-07 00:24 |
| Reporter | lynX | Assigned To | Bart Polot | ||
| Priority | low | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | Git master | ||||
| Target Version | 0.11.0pre66 | Fixed in Version | 0.11.0pre66 | ||
| Summary | 0004611: Unexpected behaviors when closing a listen port | ||||
| Description | I rate this minor/low priority since I cannot think of any application where this cannot be circumvented, so this is not a biggie. In the past, the gnunet-cadet CLI tool would allow several connections to answer on a listen port, mix the output of those in a non-distinguishable way and only send back to the first one, while also producing failed assertion repots. The updated CLI tool impedes further connections. First I tried to do it the clean way by closing the listen port after the circuit has been created, but unexpected side effects were: 1. GNUNET_CADET_close_port() makes the already established channel dysfunctional. 2. New channels would still be forwarded to the application and get caught by an assertion in cadet_api.c, that is due to the lack of an actual implementation of handle_port_close() in local.c. So now I simply make the CLI bail out. | ||||
| Additional Information | I am considering to somehow support multiple channels in a predictable way, but each incoming connect deserves to receive full attention - this doesn't match the usability of stdin which by definition is only one. netcat hasn't solved this UX dilemma, either. If you want it nice and simple with stdin, then you must close the listen port to avoid accepting further connections. The alternative would be to fire up a server process for each incoming channel, akin to inetd. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-09 12:52 | lynX | New Issue | |
| 2016-08-09 12:52 | lynX | Status | new => assigned |
| 2016-08-09 12:52 | lynX | Assigned To | => Bart Polot |
| 2016-08-10 14:07 | Christian Grothoff | Severity | minor => major |
| 2016-09-22 20:11 | Christian Grothoff | Target Version | => 0.11.0pre66 |
| 2017-02-07 23:41 | lynX | Note Added: 0011702 | |
| 2017-02-07 23:42 | lynX | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2017-02-07 23:42 | lynX | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2017-02-07 23:42 | lynX | Fixed in Version | => Git master |
| 2018-06-05 22:27 | Christian Grothoff | Fixed in Version | Git master => 0.11.0pre66 |
| 2018-06-07 00:24 | Christian Grothoff | Status | resolved => closed |
