Re: [PATCH vd_agent_linux] vdagent: Stop trying to connect to the daemon after a while

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Hi,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 05:27:43AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 16:21 +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > Do not try  indefinitely to connect to the daemon, should not
> > > take long to activate.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  src/vdagent/vdagent.c | 5 +++++
> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> > > index f7c8b72..e0228d7 100644
> > > --- a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> > > +++ b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> > > @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ typedef struct VDAgent {
> > >      struct vdagent_file_xfers *xfers;
> > >      struct udscs_connection *conn;
> > >      GIOChannel *x11_channel;
> > > +    guint connection_attempts;
> > >  
> > >      GMainLoop *loop;
> > >  } VDAgent;
> > > @@ -370,6 +371,10 @@ static gboolean vdagent_init_async_cb(gpointer
> > > user_data)
> > >                                  daemon_read_complete,
> > >                                  daemon_disconnect_cb,
> > >                                  debug);
> > >      if (agent->conn == NULL) {
> > > +        // limit connection attempts, this will try for 5 minutes
> > > +        if (++agent->connection_attempts > 5 * 60) {
> > > +            goto err_init;
> > > +        }
> > 
> > Please add a log message saying you're giving up trying to connect...
> > 
> 
> Nice idea.
> 
> > Though would it not be better to just increase the interval to ~30-60
> > seconds instead of giving up altogether after some amount of quick
> > tries?
> > 
> 
> Mainly I wanted to keep it simple.
> This code (the retry) was written for daemon not starting fast enough,
> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681797.
> With systemd now the socket is always there reducing the original issue.

Should add this rationale on commit log. So, we if are on
systemd, we don't need retry at all?

> But in some cases it seems that the daemon fails to start.

And in that case you want to limit to 5 min... ok.

Cheers,

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