[PD] netserver port availability

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Tue Jun 5 09:38:33 CEST 2007


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Try this from the Terminal:
> 
> killall -KILL pd
> 

in my experience this does not help with hung [netreceive] objects.
even more, i sometimes do have no pd-process any more anyhow (because it
was quitted) and still the port is blocked and therefore not
[netreceive] can be created.

it would be interesting to know which process actually locks the port
("lsof -i" usually does not reveal anything in these cases).
if nothing else helps, a reboot will do (rebooting might be faster than
waiting a couple of minutes)


i don't know of any (pd-side) solution to this problem, that won't make
things worse.
one (probably not so good) idea would be to actually create the object
and try to get the port in a background process.
however, this will make things very hard to debug.



masd.r
IOhannes




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