Re: kernel error in system call accept() under kernel 2.6.8

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:41 +0200, Peter Duellings wrote:
[....]
> meanwhile we could generate a strace for the problem.
> However, I guess that the strace does not give the desired
> information (see parts below).

Yup. Where exactly does the kernel return -512 in the strace output?
I can see only 40 and 43 which are valid file descriptors.

> Additionally we added in the program the output of the return
> value of the accept() system call . The return value is -512
> and the errno value is 0!
>
> Usually the return value should be -1 and the errno  should
> contain the value without the sign of the error.
> 
> 
> Any idea or comment on this ?

You are doing somewhere else something wrong so post a minimalistic
piece of source code of how you get to it.
Or show the *failing* case in the strace output.

> Thanks,

[...]
> ---------<strace>------------
> 2682  09:25:29.238663 accept(21,  <unfinished ...>
> 2688  09:25:29.263486 accept(33, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(32811),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 40 <27.171270>
> 2688  09:25:56.589969 accept(33, 0x82fa7e0, [16]) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
> restarted) <0.385453>
> 2688  09:25:56.975563 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> 2688  09:25:56.975676 accept(33, 0x82fa7e0, [16]) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
> restarted) <0.205963>
> 2688  09:25:57.181770 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> 2688  09:25:57.181842 accept(33,  <unfinished ...>
> 2682  09:25:57.231961 <... accept resumed> {sa_family=AF_INET, 
> sin_port=htons
> (32882), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 43 <27.993066>
> 2682  09:25:57.234320 accept(21,  <unfinished ...>
> 2688  09:25:57.538314 <... accept resumed> 0x82fa7e0, [16]) = ? ERESTARTSYS
> (To be restarted) <0.356435>
> 2688  09:25:57.538429 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> 2688  09:25:57.538488 accept(33, 0x82fa7e0, [16]) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
> restarted) <0.015688>
> 2688  09:25:57.554315 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> 2688  09:25:57.554370 accept(33, 0x82fa7e0, [16]) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
> restarted) <0.192660>
> 2688  09:25:57.747151 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> 2688  09:25:57.747236 accept(33, 0x82fa7e0, [16]) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
> restarted) <0.097813>
> ....
> .
> ---------</strace>------------
[...]

	Bernd
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