[GRASS5] Problem with sockets on Linux

[Andrea Aime]

I've updated my files to last CVS, and now driver is working well.
Thanks
Andrea

"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:49:02AM +0100, Andrea Aime wrote:
> > No, the server is not running, I can't find any new process (I don't
> > know the driver name (is it simply "xo"?), but if you sort processes
> > by PID you see if something has been created after grass start).
> > The following "d.mon select=x0" of course does not work and returns
> > the same error.
> > Hope this helps
> > Andrea
> 
> I think the problem is d.mon isn't getting built properly for some
> reason.  I change the arguments for "start" if the USE_G_SOCKS symbol
> is defined.  I think the drivers are being called with all the fifo
> args, so they are exiting (do you get a "Usage" message?).
> 
> > PS: which server ports are used by the X driver? Maybe it finds them
> > occupied by another application (I use 4444/6001/7001 for an in-house
> > application...). Anyway, I think that server ports numbers should be
> > configurable...
> 
> No ports are used.  Just local UNIX socket files.  I figured UNIX
> sockets are simpler and there'd be no reason another user should ever
> "connect" to a display driver started by someone else.  Also, UNIX
> sockets should be faster since the kernel has to do less work (mearly
> queues up data in a buffer from write() and pops the data to the
> application on read()).  Socket files currently live in
> <mapset>/.tmp/<host>/<driver_name>
> 
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>
> 
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