See r1470 of serf - this should stop the infinite loop. As I don't have a Windows build environment, I'd appreciate if you can confirm if this resolves the issue.
Thanks for the report! -- justin On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > > > On Windows serf doesn't see the difference between a failed connect and a > lingering close. This causes serf to automatically reconnect. See > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3832 for a few more > details. > > > > Reproduction: > > svn ls http://127.0.0.1:23456/svn > > > > On FreeBSD this gives a proper 'Connection Refused' error, but on Windows > the application just gets in a loop. > > > > I found this issue because this sometimes causes the buildbot to get stuck > when the httpd instance crashes on some assertion. > > > > Once I start using 1.7.0 for real use this problem will be much worse > because there is no clean way to get out of this error. (Only killing the > application works; which would include losing work for Subclipse and AnkhSVN > users). > > > > Either Serf should detect the right error, or Apr should implement a real > poll handler on Windows (available since Windows Vista) which should provide > more error information. > > > > Bert > > > > > >
