Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Am Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:39:11 +0100 > schrieb Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Is it only EAI_AGAIN or do you see any other return values which justify >> the retry? I'm afraid that in case of a e.g. non-existing hostname we'll >> be infinitely looping with EAI_FAIL. > > I currently do not have a setup that reproduces the failure. > I think if this thread loops forever, so be it. > > The report I have shows "getaddrinfo failed: 0xfffffffe Name or service not known" on the host side. > And that went away within the VM once "networking was fixed", whatever this means. > But hv_kvp_daemon would report the error string forever. Looping forever with a permanent error is pretty unusual... > >> > + pthread_detach(t); >> I think this should be complemented with pthread_cancel/pthread_join >> before exiting main(). > > If the thread is detached, it is exactly that: detached. Why do you think the main thread should wait for the detached thread? Ah, my bad: you actually can't join a detached thread, scratch my comment. -- Vitaly
