[Pvfs2-developers] bmi-tcp doubt

[Pai, Ankur G]

Guys,
     I need some help. I am trying to change the function tcp_accept_init() inside src/io/bmi/bmi_tcp/bmi-tcp.c. This function has the accept() call (ie. it is the first point of contact by the pvfs client to the server). At this point I need to make some immediate checks and decide if I want to allow this client any further access to the server. If I find out that I do NOT want to allow access I need to cleanly return an error to the client. If I do a return (-1) from this function, however, the server's bmi thread simply crashes giving me the foll output:
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[E 11/15 17:24] src/io/bmi/bmi.c line 957: Error: critical BMI_testcontext failure.
[E 11/15 17:24]         [bt] pvfs2-server(BMI_testcontext+0x274) [0x807a344]
[E 11/15 17:24]         [bt] pvfs2-server [0x8072971]
[E 11/15 17:24]         [bt] /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0xd4340b]
[E 11/15 17:24]         [bt] /lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x5e) [0xa03b7e]
[E 11/15 17:24] Warning: non PVFS2 error code (1):
[E 11/15 17:24] critical BMI failure.
: Operation not permitted
[E 11/15 17:24] bmi_thread_function thread terminating
[E 11/15 17:24] 
PVFS2 server got signal 2 (server_status_flag: 262143)
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I am using pvfs-2.6.3. At this point in the code, i see a comment which says:
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/* FIXME: 
         * BIG KLUDGE
         * if we return an error, pvfs2-server's bmi thread simply terminates. 
         * hence I am returning 0 here. Need to ask Phil or RobR about this...
         */
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Is there any fix for this problem yet?


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Thanks & Regards,
Ankur Pai
Graduate Student - Computer Science
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology