Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F08A431FAF for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:04:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id O1J+GUdGJD47 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9284431FAE for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034089108.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.89.108] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TPgDa-0001xt-MX; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:04:27 -0300 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TPgDU-00041I-Tt; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:04:20 -0300 From: David Bremner To: Tomi Ollila , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] test/smtp-dummy: add --background option and functionality In-Reply-To: <1347978182-8771-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> References: <1347978182-8771-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+37~gf227d63 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:04:20 -0300 Message-ID: <87pq4cj1nv.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_bar: - Cc: Tomi Ollila X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:04:28 -0000 Tomi Ollila writes: > From: Tomi Ollila > > When shell executes background process using '&' the scheduling of > that new process is arbitrary. It could be that smtp-dummy doesn't > get execution time to listen() it's server socket until some other > process attempts to connect() to it. The --background option in > smtp-dummy makes it to go background *after* it started to listen > its server socket. series pushed d