[slime-devel] Re: [patch] closing connections with :fd-handler style

[Helmut Eller]

* Stephen Compall [2005-12-28 01:52+0100] writes:

> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 02:47 -0600, I wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, the only way a Swank connection object with
>> style :fd-handler will ever be closed due to EOF (with
>> close-connection) is if either the fd-handler implementation detects
>> the EOF state and knows how to destroy Swank connections, or a
>> condition is raised in the dynamic context of
>> with-reader-error-handler.  Looking at the topmost form in that
>> context, however, it can only happen if (listen socket) answers T, so
>> that the attempt to read can proceed and raise an eof-error, which
>> gets wrapped up, etc.
>> 
>> I modified process-available-input to test (listen socket) only after
>> calling FN at least once; after all, it always returns T when the
>> handler is called for a normal input state.  Without this patch, my
>> fd-handler backend gets into an endless loop calling the handler in
>> install-fd-handler (with the :eof state); with this patch, the socket
>> is closed, removed from *connections*, and from the fd-handler backend
>> properly.
>> 
>> Attached is the patch.
>
> I thought maybe the DO loop was a bad idea, so here is a version that
> uses LOOP.

It's not the DO loop, it's because I can't reproduce the behavior.
When I do a M-x slime-disconnect, everything seems to get closed just
fine.  Not that I can explain why open-stream-p in
process-available-input returns true in that case, but apparently it
does.

So, how to you actually produce the endless loop?