That bug that no-one else was able to reproduce came back for long enough for me to investigate it. I think that's good... :-p
The issue: when reading a trailing field, on my particular system (java 1.4.1_01,
linux), in ReceiveInputStream.read(Byte[], int, int) the call to in.read(Byte[], int,
int) will hang if the accumulator is empty, but more data is still to come, and of
course die when the stream is ripped away from it when it times out.
This, of course, only manifests itself in certain situations, but I'm not sure of
exactly which race is happening... it seems to be that python is feeding the node too
slowly, or java is processing the data too fast (I assume the former, since it doesn't
occour if you have a faster system than mine, it seems, and python seems to buffer
sends in weird ways that I don't really undersatnd).
The weird thing: adding Thread.sleep(100) after the aforementioned read() causes it to
work, but of course this si a stupid fix, and so I've been attemption to chase up a
real fix, until I realised that I'm too tired to care right now, and I just want to
insert my site and go to sleep :-p. I suspect, tho, someone who actually understands
the code in question, as opposed to me just sorta pretending to and hoping that my
hacks help, should be able to fix this relatively quickly, or at least suggest one for
me to implent :)
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