[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #546: xapian-replicate reads from a socket without using timeouts

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#546: xapian-replicate reads from a socket without using timeouts
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 Reporter:  nkvoll       |             Owner:  olly
     Type:  defect       |            Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |         Milestone:  1.2.21
Component:  Replication  |           Version:
 Severity:  normal       |        Resolution:
 Keywords:               |        Blocked By:
 Blocking:               |  Operating System:  All
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Changes (by olly):

 * milestone:  1.3.3 => 1.2.21


Comment:

 [1500c38b4f9720a8973e58ce76ea10beb3203fd2] adds an option to `xapian-
 replicate` to allow specifying a socket level timeout, and also turns on
 `SO_KEEPALIVE` for that socket.

 I'm not clear on how to repeat the test with `iptables`.  It says I need
 to find the port with `lsof -i`, but is that the port on the replication
 server or client?

 And I guess I need to run that while a replication is happening - did you
 just use a suitably large database that replication ran for long enough
 that you could look up the port and run the `iptables` command, or was
 there some trick to this?

 It would be nice to backport this to 1.2.x, so marking for 1.2.21, at
 least for now.  I'd really like to be able to test this first though.

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