Bug 113508 - linc-cleanup-sockets in wrong package
Summary: linc-cleanup-sockets in wrong package
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Michael Meeks
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Reported: 2005-08-27 02:30 UTC by Jon Nelson
Modified: 2005-11-22 21:18 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Nelson 2005-08-27 02:30:51 UTC 
linc-cleanup-sockets is currently in orbit2-devel but it's not a development
tool, it's often useful (and in some environments required) to clean up the
stale socket files left over.  In one particular instance, a user had over
60,000 of these files slowing down the use of basically all gtk/gnome programs
to a crawl.

linc-cleanup-sockets is the recommended solution to this common problem, and in
some environments it's even run as part of .bash_login or .bash_logout.
Comment 1 Michael Meeks 2005-08-31 14:26:20 UTC 
True - we should prolly run linc-cleanup-sockets (in the background) as part of
our login session / script - and yes - unfortunately there's no way to cleanup
those sockets otherwise.

Ideally of course, we should be using anonymous sockets (without an associated
file system node) - a rather more trivial fix (for Linux) - but one we never got
around to - that's prolly the better (simpler) fix. to
ORBit2/linc/src/linc-protocols.c (link_protocol_get_sockaddr_unix).
Comment 2 Gary Ekker 2005-08-31 17:09:31 UTC 
linc-cleanup-sockets is now included in the main package.

Michael, I guess you were volunteering to make a patch for the second part?
Comment 3 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-01 13:59:51 UTC 
you are aware that we do not even have a "linc" package anymore ?
Comment 4 Michael Meeks 2005-09-01 20:11:07 UTC 
Sure - I have a hacked-up, not-very-tested patch that works for me & passes the
ORBit2 regression tests but may introduce a hideous security problem ... ;-)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315060
Comment 5 Jon Nelson 2005-09-10 19:35:55 UTC 
Yay! Thanks for moving linc-cleanup-sockets to the main package!
As for the other issue(s), if they aren't related to this bug, should they be
their own bugs so this can be closed?
Comment 6 Jon Nelson 2005-11-20 23:06:17 UTC 
It looks to me like linc-cleanup-sockets is now in the orbit2 rpm (for 10.1), so I think this bug could be closed.

Thanks!
Comment 7 Jon Nelson 2005-11-22 21:18:29 UTC 
Fixed for 10.1 for sure.