Re: A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:03 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 10
> > connect(10, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.ICE-unix/2546"}, 21) = 0
> 
> That's (almost certainly) so fifo - a named pipe, It's used to talk to 
> something else on the same host (even it a fifo is on a network 
> filesystem, it doesn't go over the wire).

It's a unix-domain socket, but yes, it's a local socket connection.

The trace shows the application blocking trying to read from that socket
which means the peer is off in la-la land.  Fortunately, ICE sockets are
named for the process ID of the server; what's pid 2546 when this
happens?

- ajax