[gpsd-dev] Another glitch: TCP device open error

[Hal Murray]

What does this mean?  I assume it's just a quirk in the test harness.

...
Processing test/daemon/tcp-test.log
Processing test/daemon/superstar2.log
Processing test/daemon/tcp-test.log
Processing test/daemon/tcp-test.log
gpsd:ERROR: TCP device open error can't connect to host/port pair.
gpsd:ERROR: tcp://127.0.0.1:49194: device activation failed.
Regression test successful: no errors in 15 tests (0 not found).
Elapsed time: 27
Testing the daemon...

Note that it doesn't get counted as an error.

That's from the output of a hunt-for-trouble script that I run to hammer on 
tcp-test.log since it was the test that caused the most troubles with timing 
glitches.

I've seen it on both NetBSD and FreeBSD.

On FreeBSD, it happens only occasionally.

On NetBSD, I haven't seen it on a 32 bit system and it seems solid on a 64 
bit system.  (The 64 bit system has to run in slow mode, so I don't have a 
lot of data.  My memory may be flaky.)


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