Taru Karttunen wrote:
Excerpts from Bardur Arantsson's message of Tue Feb 16 22:57:23 +0200 2010:
As far as I can tell, all nonblocking networking code is vulnerable to this issue (unless it actually does use threadWaitRead, obviously :)).
There are a few easy fixes:
1) socket timeouts with Network.Socket.setSocketOption
The whole point of this thread is that this isn't sufficent.
2) just make your server code have timeouts in Haskell
This cannot be fixed in the sendfile library, it is a feature of TCP that connections may linger for a long time unless explicit timeouts are used.
The problem is that the sendfile library *doesn't* wake up when the connection is terminated (because of threadWaitWrite) -- it doesn't matter what the timeout is. Client code of the sendfile library shouldn't have to try to work around this -- it's absurd to expect it to. Please read the entire thread. Cheers,