Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 07:57:06 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setsockopt() weirdness Message-ID: <20020714075706.A74633@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207141037280.13872-100000@search.sparks.net>; from dmiller@sparks.net on Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:49:56AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207141037280.13872-100000@search.sparks.net>
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:49:56AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> I'm probably doing something basic wrong, but I'm getting a very
> inconsistent response when using setsockopt to set the SO_RCVTIMEO to
> seven seconds or more.
i would suspect some overflow of 16-bit fields used to store
the timeout value (scaled by HZ) .
What value of "HZ" are you using ? And what is the exact threshold
where it fails (i'd bet it is between 6.5 and 6.6 sec.) ?
cheers
luigi
>
> The program included works on a 4.3R system, a 4.4R and a 4.6stable system
> SUPd June 24. The systems are a 486, 800 MHz P-III, and 1.1 GHz t-bird
> respectively.
>
> The program fails to work on a 1 GHz t-bird with 4.6S SUPd last night, and
> an XP1700+ SUP'd several days ago.
>
> "Works" is defined as:
>
> bash-2.05$ ./x
> Successfully set timeout to 6
> Successfully set timeout to 7
>
> "Not works" is defined as:
>
> alex:c$ ./x
> Successfully set timeout to 6
> Error 33 trying to set socket timeout to 7
>
>
> Clue greatly appreciated.
>
> --- David
>
> The program:
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <sys/errno.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <arpa/inet.h>
> #include <netdb.h>
> #include <sys/time.h>
>
>
> extern int errno;
>
> main() {
>
> int sock, timeout ;
> struct itimerval s_timeout;
>
> if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP)) < 0) {
> printf("Couldn't get a socket, err %d\n",sock);
> exit(-1);
> }
>
> s_timeout.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
> s_timeout.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
>
> s_timeout.it_value.tv_sec = 0;
> s_timeout.it_interval.tv_sec = 6;
>
> if (setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO,
> &s_timeout, sizeof(s_timeout))) {
> printf("Error %d trying to set socket timeout\n",errno);
> }
> else {
> printf("Successfully set timeout to %d\n",
> s_timeout.it_interval.tv_sec);
> }
>
> s_timeout.it_interval.tv_sec = 7;
>
> if (setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO,
> &s_timeout, sizeof(s_timeout))) {
> printf("Error %d trying to set socket timeout to %d\n",
> errno, s_timeout.it_interval.tv_sec);
> }
> else {
> printf("Successfully set timeout to %d\n",
> s_timeout.it_interval.tv_sec);
> }
> }
>
>
>
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