[Xastir] New Xastir port

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> Sounds like something is connecting to the listener socket a lot and
> then not doing a proper disconnect, then connecting again.  Could
> also be someone doing port scanning on your box.
>
> Any process with "defunct" listed means that the process has died
> but it's parent process has not reaped the process status yet.
> Sometimes if it has been orphanes you have to wait for the "init"

meant "orphaned"


> process to come along and do that.
>
> If Xastir detects that one of the forked processes has died it tries
> to do a "wait" in order to reap the process.
>
> Assuming it isn't something peculiar about your system that is doing
> it, one thing that usually works well is to set the KEEPALIVE flag
> so that Xastir tries to send some out-of-band data periodically just
> to keep a stream alive.  If a connection doesn't go end-to-end,
> Xastir will detect it at that point.

This is a programming thing, and option to set on the socket once
you have it connected.

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