Hi all I am doing a DCC subsystem on a irc client. After all the handshakes are done I just connect to the server and start `recv`. The code I use for this is: getPackets :: MVar Int -> FilePath -- ^ Name media -> Int -- ^ File size -> AddrInfo -> ExceptT DCCError IO () getPackets mvar name totalSize addr = do receivedSize <- lift $ bracket acquire release receive let delta = (totalSize - receivedSize) if delta > 0 then throwE (NotFullRecv delta) else return () where bufferSize = 16384 acquire :: IO (IO.Handle,Socket) acquire = (,) <$> (IO.openFile name IO.WriteMode) <*> newSocket addr release :: (IO.Handle,Socket) -> IO () release (hdl, sock) = IO.hClose hdl >> close sock receive :: (IO.Handle,Socket) -> IO Int receive (hdl, sock) = flip execStateT 0 . fix $ \loop -> do mediaData <- lift (B.recv sock bufferSize) unless (B.null mediaData) $ do S.modify' (+ (B.length mediaData)) currentSize <- S.get lift $ B.hPut hdl mediaData >> B.send sock (int2BS currentSize) >> swapMVar mvar currentSize loop Part of the protocol is that on each `recv` I send the current received size on network byte order. Hence the B.send line on receive I use this function: -- | given a number forms a bytestring with each digit on a separated -- Word8 in network byte-order int2BS :: Int -> B.ByteString int2BS i | w <- (fromIntegral i :: Word32) = B.pack [ (fromIntegral (shiftR w 24) :: Word8) , (fromIntegral (shiftR w 16) :: Word8) , (fromIntegral (shiftR w 8) :: Word8) , (fromIntegral w :: Word8)] Everything works correctly until around 1/2 of a test transfer (ie in a file of 340M it gets 170). That first half is gotten in the right order (I tested with a video and it was playable until the middle). On tinier files the bug doesn't happen, the file is received completly. I did a little bit of `strace` and `tcpdump` and I got this -- strace -e trace=network -p $client (..) 30439 recvfrom(13, "\312\255\201\337\376\355\253\r\177\276\204X]8\6\221\301#\361<>\273+\355\5\343B \333\366\351W"..., 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = 1380 30439 sendto(13, "\n\273\31l", 4, 0, NULL, 0) = 4 30439 recvfrom(13, 0x20023f010, 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) 30439 recvfrom(13, "\222llq_H\23\17\275\f}\367\"P4\23\207\312$w\371J\354aW2\243R\32\v\n\251"..., 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = 1380 30439 sendto(13, "\n\273\36\320", 4, 0, NULL, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) 30438 --- SIGVTALRM {si_signo=SIGVTALRM, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_timerid=0, si_overrun=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}} --- 30438 --- SIGVTALRM {si_signo=SIGVTALRM, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_timerid=0, si_overrun=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}} --- (..) -- tcpdump 05:20:22.788273 IP tapioca.36346 > 198.255.92.74.36103: Flags [.], ack 48004680, win 489, options [nop,nop,TS val 627805332 ecr 675358947,nop,nop,sack 1 {48006060:48066780}], length 0 05:20:22.975627 IP 198.255.92.74.36103 > tapioca.36346: Flags [.], seq 48004680:48006060, ack 82629, win 0, options [nop,nop,TS val 675359033 ecr 627805248], length 1380 05:20:23.014991 IP tapioca.36346 > 198.255.92.74.36103: Flags [.], ack 48066780, win 4, options [nop,nop,TS val 627805559 ecr 675359033], length 0 05:20:23.768012 IP 198.255.92.74.36103 > tapioca.36346: Flags [P.], seq 48066780:48067292, ack 82629, win 0, options [nop,nop,TS val 675359232 ecr 627805559], length 512 05:20:23.768143 IP tapioca.36346 > 198.255.92.74.36103: Flags [.], ack 48067292, win 0, options [nop,nop,TS val 627806312 ecr 675359232], length 0 05:20:24.523397 IP 198.255.92.74.36103 > tapioca.36346: Flags [.], ack 82629, win 0, options [nop,nop,TS val 675359421 ecr 627806312], length 0 What bothers me is that SIGVTALRM on the strace output. I am not the greatest unix hacker but that signal is related to settimer and I haven't explicitly set that up. So I am scratching me head a little. Maybe somebody has experienced something related with the network package? Do you notice something on the logs? thanks in advance. -- -- Ruben Astudillo