[sane-devel] Network connected scanner, i/o error if scanner is idle for longer then 40sec

[Paul Newall]

On 30/12/14 17:26, Paul Newall wrote:
> On 30/12/14 10:18, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 10:09 +0000, Paul Newall wrote:
>>> I have been digging down into the code, and adding extra debug output.
>>> In my network read function kodakaio_net_read it seems that 
>>> poll(...) is
>>> indicating that there is data to read, but sanei_ tcp_read(..) then
>>> returns zero bytes.
>>> If there was no data I'd expect poll to timeout, and if there was some
>>> data, sanei_ tcp_read should return it?
>>> But this is the only network read code I have ever written in c so I am
>>> not too confident it is correct.
>>>
>>> Paul
>> A read returning 0 bytes when the fd is ready indicates that the other
>> side closed the TCP-connection. you probably need to send some form of
>> keep-alive or close/ the connection when you don't need it and re-open
>> the connection later.
>> Louis
>>
>>
> Thank you Louis, that was very helpful.
> It seems that the scanner initiates keep-alive exchanges every 3 
> seconds for around 27 seconds, then it closes the connection.
>
> I had assumed the normal thing would be to open the connection in 
> sane_open, and close it in sane_close,
> but perhaps it's better to open the connection in sane_start, and 
> close it in sane_cancel.
>
> Or I could leave things more or less as they  are, but detect the loss 
> of connection and reopen it if required.
>
> Paul
>

I have now made the changes to open the connection in sane_start, and close
it in sane_cancel. And that seems to have solved the problem without breaking anything else.

Paul

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