I believe the accept is failing under heavy load.

I was puzzled by the weird shell parsing and wondered if that was part of the problem so I whipped up a lame threaded client that can reliably "crash" the server on my Debian system. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.10.0;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Socket;
use threads;

my $rendezvous = shift || 'catsock';
my $max_clients = 10;

$_->join for map { threads->create( \&run_client ) } 1 .. $max_clients
+;

sub run_client {
    my $sock;
    unless ( socket($sock, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) ) {
        warn "socket: $!";
        return;
    }
    unless ( connect($sock, sockaddr_un($rendezvous)) ) {
        warn "connect: $!";
        return;
    };
    while ( defined(my $line = <$sock>) ) {
        print $line;
    }
}

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The next thing I noticed was that an strace of the server seemed to exit normally. Immediately after the for loop I added

print "\n\nWTF?\n\n";

and got

$ perl -T 855342.pl
855342.pl 22345: server started on catsock at Tue Aug 17 11:00:49 2010
855342.pl 22345: connection on catsock at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: begat 22348 at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: connection on catsock at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: begat 22350 at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: connection on catsock at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: begat 22352 at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: connection on catsock at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: begat 22355 at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: connection on catsock at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010
855342.pl 22345: begat 22356 at Tue Aug 17 11:00:51 2010


WTF?

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That means that the for condition accept(Client,Server) || $waitedpid; is evaluating to false. Just before the exit, the strace shows 

accept(3, 0x7fff3015acc0, [4096])       = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restart
+ed)

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Therefore, I believe the accept is failing under heavy load and my advice is to always check the return value from accept.

In reply to Re: Unix-Domain TCP Server Crashing by rowdog
in thread Unix-Domain TCP Server Crashing by wokka

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