[PD] ugly "already connected" errors

[michael strohmann]

Thanks for looking into this. 
The listener is an app called Lemur which receives and sends OSC messages . I don’t know too much about the workings of this app though...


> Am 25.01.2019 um 15:35 schrieb Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>:
> 
> What you found, challenged my understanding of UDP and it seems,
> depending on implementation, the sender socket is in some cases
> notified about the termination of the receiving socket. 
> 
> When I connect [netsend -u] to a small python script that opens a
> listening socket, i can kill the script and start it again and [netsend
> -u] can still send packets. When I connect to 'nc -v -u -l -p 11579'
> instead, [netsend -b] can send packets only as long as the process is
> running. When I kill nc and start it again, no messages reach their
> destination anymore. I have to 'disconnect' and 'connect'. 
> 
> So what kind of software is opening the listening socket on the phone? 
> 
> Roman
> 
>> On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 15:14 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 15:01 +0100, michael strohmann wrote:
>>> thanks for the answer!
>>> but, 
>>> in order to show that there is a connection betwenn the app to pd i
>>> do:
>>> 
>>> [metro 1000]
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> [toggle(                    
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> [oscformat BlinkingButton/value]
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> [list prepend send]
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> [list trim]
>>>>   \
>>>>    [t b]
>>>>    |
>>>>    [disconnect, connect 192.168.178.189 8000(
>>>>   /
>>> 
>>> [netsend -u -b] 
>>> 
>>> now everytime the phone is not available i get:
>>> recv: Connection refused (111)
>>> netsend: Bad file descriptor (9)
>>> warning: 35 removed from poll list but not found
>>> 
>>> if i dont disconnect before sending i get the “already connected”
>>> error.
>>> and if i only connect once and leave the pd side connected, no
>>> messages are received on the phone once it leaves the wlan.
>>> 
>>> messages sent from the phone are almost always received.
>>> 
>>> in any case it get a console message, either “connecting to port
>>> 8000” or “already connected”
>>> 
>>> i am just concerned because my patch crashes or freezes or create
>>> glitchy digital artefacts from time to time, and since it is a 24/7
>>> audio installation i would like it to work.
>>> how to find these bugs...
>> 
>> Oh, I see. That's much messier than I thought. I always believed an
>> UDP
>> socket stays open regardless of the presence of the other end. But
>> seems to be not fully true. I'm not sure what's going on but it looks
>> like the OS closes the socket without [netsend] actually noticing
>> it. 
>> 
>> I would try what Antoine suggested and send a 'disconnect' each time
>> before you connect again. There should be no harm in 'disconnect'ing
>> and 'connect'ing many times.
>> 
>> Roman
>> 
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