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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:18:01 -0400
From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
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Subject: Re: Modem race with Multilink PPP
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On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:46:16AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> This is a known problem (well, to me anyway).
> 
> Ppp will attempt to bind() a local domain socket when MP is 
> established.  If bind() fails, it'll try to connect(), otherwise 
> it'll try to listen().  If two processes are doing this at the same 
> time, one bind() succeeds, but the connect() of the failed process 
> happens before the servers listen() and fails :-(

IDKWITA, but from experimentation, the connect() should block for a
while and succeed shortly after the other process calls listen().
-- 
Christopher Masto         Senior Network Monkey      NetMonger Communications
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use IO::Socket;
use strict;

fork ? &parent : &child;

sub parent {
  print "P $$: parent\n";
  my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
  my $s = new IO::Socket;
  $s->socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "P $$: socket: $!";
  $s->bind(pack_sockaddr_in(7890, INADDR_ANY)) or die "P $$: bind: $!";
  print "P $$: waiting..\n";
  sleep 5;
  print "P $$: listening.\n";
  $s->listen(5);
  print "P $$: waiting..\n";
  sleep 30;
  print "P $$: done\n";
}

sub child {
  print "C $$: child\n";
  sleep 1;
  print "C $$: connecting..\n";
  my $c = new IO::Socket::INET(Proto => "tcp", PeerAddr => "localhost:7890")
    or die "C $$: connect: $!";
  print "C $$: done.\n";
}

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