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cuirass-remote-worker crash

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Message #16 received at 59493-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59493-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59493: cuirass-remote-worker crash
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:03:32 +0100

Hey,

> Oh I see.  It would be nice to avoid non-backward-compatible changes in
> the protocol so we can upgrade more smoothly.

Right, sorry. We should introduce a protocol version to avoid that in
the future.

> Fixed in Cuirass commit 9fb6f21d29c5398b35f4c1a77cf6c20f207c9ebb.

Awesome, thanks :)

> To me, ideally this would be either multi-threaded or Fiberized.  The
> latter would be more fruitful but what might be difficult is
> guile-simple-zmq integration with Fibers (but maybe not: zmq_getsockopt
> + ZMQ_FD lets us get the file descriptor of a socket).

I would prefer the multi-threaded approach if possible. While the
concept of Fiber is nice it adds another layer of complexity and
instability to those programs which are already hard to debug.

Mathieu

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