const char *EventMachine_t::ConnectToServer (const char *server, int port)
{
/* We want to spend no more than a few seconds waiting for a connection
* to a remote host. So we use a nonblocking connect.
* Linux disobeys the usual rules for nonblocking connects.
* Per Stevens (UNP p.410), you expect a nonblocking connect to select
* both readable and writable on error, and not to return EINPROGRESS
* if the connect can be fulfilled immediately. Linux violates both
* of these expectations.
* Any kind of nonblocking connect on Linux returns EINPROGRESS.
* The socket will then return writable when the disposition of the
* connect is known, but it will not also be readable in case of
* error! Weirdly, it will be readable in case there is data to read!!!
* (Which can happen with protocols like SSH and SMTP.)
* I suppose if you were so inclined you could consider this logical,
* but it's not the way Unix has historically done it.
* So we ignore the readable flag and read getsockopt to see if there
* was an error connecting. A select timeout works as expected.
* In regard to getsockopt: Linux does the Berkeley-style thing,
* not the Solaris-style, and returns zero with the error code in
* the error parameter.
* Return the binding-text of the newly-created pending connection,
* or NULL if there was a problem.
*/
if (!server || !*server || !port)
return NULL;
int family, bind_size;
struct sockaddr *bind_as = name2address (server, port, &family, &bind_size);
if (!bind_as)
return NULL;
int sd = socket (family, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sd == INVALID_SOCKET)
return NULL;
/*
sockaddr_in pin;
unsigned long HostAddr;
HostAddr = inet_addr (server);
if (HostAddr == INADDR_NONE) {
hostent *hp = gethostbyname ((char*)server); // Windows requires (char*)
if (!hp) {
// TODO: This gives the caller a fatal error. Not good.
// They can respond by catching RuntimeError (blecch).
// Possibly we need to fire an unbind event and provide
// a status code so user code can detect the cause of the
// failure.
return NULL;
}
HostAddr = ((in_addr*)(hp->h_addr))->s_addr;
}
memset (&pin, 0, sizeof(pin));
pin.sin_family = AF_INET;
pin.sin_addr.s_addr = HostAddr;
pin.sin_port = htons (port);
int sd = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sd == INVALID_SOCKET)
return NULL;
*/
// From here on, ALL error returns must close the socket.
// Set the new socket nonblocking.
if (!SetSocketNonblocking (sd)) {
closesocket (sd);
return NULL;
}
// Disable slow-start (Nagle algorithm).
int one = 1;
setsockopt (sd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, (char*) &one, sizeof(one));
const char *out = NULL;
#ifdef OS_UNIX
//if (connect (sd, (sockaddr*)&pin, sizeof pin) == 0) {
if (connect (sd, bind_as, bind_size) == 0) {
// This is a connect success, which Linux appears
// never to give when the socket is nonblocking,
// even if the connection is intramachine or to
// localhost.
/* Changed this branch 08Aug06. Evidently some kernels
* (FreeBSD for example) will actually return success from
* a nonblocking connect. This is a pretty simple case,
* just set up the new connection and clear the pending flag.
* Thanks to Chris Ochs for helping track this down.
* This branch never gets taken on Linux or (oddly) OSX.
* The original behavior was to throw an unimplemented,
* which the user saw as a fatal exception. Very unfriendly.
*
* Tweaked 10Aug06. Even though the connect disposition is
* known, we still set the connect-pending flag. That way
* some needed initialization will happen in the ConnectionDescriptor.
* (To wit, the ConnectionCompleted event gets sent to the client.)
*/
ConnectionDescriptor *cd = new ConnectionDescriptor (sd, this);
if (!cd)
throw std::runtime_error ("no connection allocated");
cd->SetConnectPending (true);
Add (cd);
out = cd->GetBinding().c_str();
}
else if (errno == EINPROGRESS) {
// Errno will generally always be EINPROGRESS, but on Linux
// we have to look at getsockopt to be sure what really happened.
int error;
socklen_t len;
len = sizeof(error);
int o = getsockopt (sd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, &error, &len);
if ((o == 0) && (error == 0)) {
// Here, there's no disposition.
// Put the connection on the stack and wait for it to complete
// or time out.
ConnectionDescriptor *cd = new ConnectionDescriptor (sd, this);
if (!cd)
throw std::runtime_error ("no connection allocated");
cd->SetConnectPending (true);
Add (cd);
out = cd->GetBinding().c_str();
}
else {
/* This could be connection refused or some such thing.
* We will come here on Linux if a localhost connection fails.
* Changed 16Jul06: Originally this branch was a no-op, and
* we'd drop down to the end of the method, close the socket,
* and return NULL, which would cause the caller to GET A
* FATAL EXCEPTION. Now we keep the socket around but schedule an
* immediate close on it, so the caller will get a close-event
* scheduled on it. This was only an issue for localhost connections
* to non-listening ports. We may eventually need to revise this
* revised behavior, in case it causes problems like making it hard
* for people to know that a failure occurred.
*/
ConnectionDescriptor *cd = new ConnectionDescriptor (sd, this);
if (!cd)
throw std::runtime_error ("no connection allocated");
cd->ScheduleClose (false);
Add (cd);
out = cd->GetBinding().c_str();
}
}
else {
// The error from connect was something other then EINPROGRESS.
}
#endif
#ifdef OS_WIN32
//if (connect (sd, (sockaddr*)&pin, sizeof pin) == 0) {
if (connect (sd, bind_as, bind_size) == 0) {
// This is a connect success, which Windows appears
// never to give when the socket is nonblocking,
// even if the connection is intramachine or to
// localhost.
throw std::runtime_error ("unimplemented");
}
else if (WSAGetLastError() == WSAEWOULDBLOCK) {
// Here, there's no disposition.
// Windows appears not to surface refused connections or
// such stuff at this point.
// Put the connection on the stack and wait for it to complete
// or time out.
ConnectionDescriptor *cd = new ConnectionDescriptor (sd, this);
if (!cd)
throw std::runtime_error ("no connection allocated");
cd->SetConnectPending (true);
Add (cd);
out = cd->GetBinding().c_str();
}
else {
// The error from connect was something other then WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
}
#endif
if (out == NULL)
closesocket (sd);
return out;
}
const char *EventMachine_t::ConnectToUnixServer (const char *server)
{
/* Connect to a Unix-domain server, which by definition is running
* on the same host.
* There is no meaningful implementation on Windows.
* There's no need to do a nonblocking connect, since the connection
* is always local and can always be fulfilled immediately.
*/
#ifdef OS_WIN32
throw std::runtime_error ("unix-domain connection unavailable on this platform");
return NULL;
#endif
// The whole rest of this function is only compiled on Unix systems.
#ifdef OS_UNIX
const char *out = NULL;
if (!server || !*server)
return NULL;
sockaddr_un pun;
memset (&pun, 0, sizeof(pun));
pun.sun_family = AF_LOCAL;
// You ordinarily expect the server name field to be at least 1024 bytes long,
// but on Linux it can be MUCH shorter.
if (strlen(server) >= sizeof(pun.sun_path))
throw std::runtime_error ("unix-domain server name is too long");
strcpy (pun.sun_path, server);
int fd = socket (AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (fd == INVALID_SOCKET)
return NULL;
// From here on, ALL error returns must close the socket.
// NOTE: At this point, the socket is still a blocking socket.
if (connect (fd, (struct sockaddr*)&pun, sizeof(pun)) != 0) {
closesocket (fd);
return NULL;
}
// Set the newly-connected socket nonblocking.
if (!SetSocketNonblocking (fd)) {
closesocket (fd);
return NULL;
}
// Set up a connection descriptor and add it to the event-machine.
// Observe, even though we know the connection status is connect-success,
// we still set the "pending" flag, so some needed initializations take
// place.
ConnectionDescriptor *cd = new ConnectionDescriptor (fd, this);
if (!cd)
throw std::runtime_error ("no connection allocated");
cd->SetConnectPending (true);
Add (cd);
out = cd->GetBinding().c_str();
if (out == NULL)
closesocket (fd);
return out;
#endif
}