Re: [Chicken-users] Spiffy crashes occasionally

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/11/05, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Spiffy just crashed on my machine.  The error I got is pretty lame:
> thread thread2118 terminated with exception: can not write to socket: (18 
> "HTTP/1.1")
> Error: (tcp-accept) could not accept from listener: #<tcp-listener>
> 
> Apparently for some reason something happens to the socket...  Spiffy dies
> because it doesn't catch any exceptions of this kind.  Maybe the error
> reporting for tcp-accept can be improved to give some strerror(3) info so
> we know /why/ this is failing.

I'll added this. Thanks for the suggestion.

> 
> Before these errors there was an instance of the usual error: can not
> write to socket (22 "...") where "..." is 112 Kb of binary data.  If
> someone thinks it is useful info, I can mail them the log of that.
> 

No, I on't think this is necessary. This must be highly client-dependent.
I will try to improve spiffy to handle this more gracefully. Even if I can't
directly find out what the problem is, we can at least make it more robust.


cheers,
felix