[erlang-bugs] [erlang-questions] Process/FD leak in SSL R15B01

[Ingela Anderton Andin]

Hi!

Loïc Hoguin wrote:
> I don't understand why there's no timeout though. Wouldn't it make sense 
> to have a small timeout to avoid this and any related problem entirely?
> 

Well yes and no ;) ssl:close should conceptually not fail so you should 
not need a timeout. The problem seems to be that be that the cleaning
up code sometimes could cause a unforeseen hanging problem, as in the 
rabbitmq case. Although in your case it seems that the problem is 
something else, at least some of the times. Currently I am thinking that 
maybe the close function is incorrectly implemented and that it should 
utilize supervisor:terminate_child so that the OTP-supervisor will
kill the process if it hangs in terminate. (It has a timeout) I will 
work on making sush a patch. I suppose in the meantime you could 
implement a timeout to ssl-close and verify that this timeout would 
solve your problem. As then my suggested way should solve it too just 
more OTPish and without the need of extending the API.

Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP team - Ericsson AB