[jcifs] threading

[Dan Dumont]

That's fine with me, perhaps I did not make my intentions clear.  I
don't mind if it blocks the thread.  What I do mind is that it blocks
all other threads trying to connect also.

The whole program locks up while I wait for one thread to connect.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael B. Allen [mailto:miallen at eskimo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 12:06 AM
To: Dan Dumont
Cc: crh at ubiqx.mn.org; jcifs at samba.org
Subject: Re: [jcifs] threading

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:58:59 -0500
Dan Dumont <dan at canofsleep.com> wrote:

> OS: winXP
> JVM: 1.3.1
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at ubiqx.mn.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 5:51 PM
> To: Dan Dumont
> Cc: jcifs at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [jcifs] threading
> 
> [On List]
> 
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:36:20PM -0500, Dan Dumont wrote:
> :
> > this is the error I get when the thread finally dies:
> > jcifs.smb.SmbException: Connection timed out: connect
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.send(SmbTransport.java:476)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.negotiate(SmbTransport.java:664)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbTree.treeConnect(SmbTree.java:116)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.connect(SmbFile.java:514)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.connect0(SmbFile.java:484)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.sendTransaction(SmbFile.java:460)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.listFiles(SmbFile.java:1325)
> > 	at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.listFiles(SmbFile.java:1237)
> > 	at T2Crawler.<init>(T2Crawler.java:91)
> > 	at T2Crawler.main(T2Crawler.java:114)

This is standard behavior for a host that does not respond to a SYN
packet. Try another client. Or just try writing a trivial socket program
to test against the errant server. It will always hang the thread for
~1min15sec.

> The connect() function on a Unix box can block if the socket is not
set
> to
> non-blocking before the call is made.  It would take some testing (the

You cannot set a socket non-blocking in Java.

Mike

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