Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: Exception in the socket code

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On 03/25/2011 03:33 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/25/2011 03:28 PM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>>> >
>>> >  I'll apply the Buffers.st part since it's good anyway.
>> hmm. does this mean I can't read data out of a remotely closed socket? Or 
>> only
>> when I have called close myself. Sorry for the stupid question.
> 
> No, only when you have called close yourself.  In fact, I'm not sure what
> would call #close on the buffers; nothing, probably.  But the patch would
> definitely tell us if that's happening.
> 
> Now that I think of it, while my patch to the buffer classes is good for GST,
> you may want to replace the two implementations of #close with just "self 
> halt".

Okay,

I can reproduce the issue using tcpkill of dsniff on the connection. I will
debug tomorrow morning. While testing I think I stumbled across mem corruption
of DoIt's (Eval [] in a file) and doing CTRL+C (e.g. when waiting for a
socket...). It is causing a segfault when clearing the obstack. :)