sudden problems with socket connections

[Scott Evans]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Steve Youngs wrote:
> * Scott Evans <gse at antisleep.com> writes:
> 
>   > Hi folks,
>   > I'm one of the maintainers of TNT, an IM client for Emacs.
>   > (http://tnt.sourceforge.net) 
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> I'm the maintainer of Eicq (http://www.eicq.org/), an ICQ client for
> (S)XEmacs, we might have some things in common. :-)

Double-digit user base?  Or do you also have coworkers that say "no, 
seriously?" when they find out which client you use?  :)



> Do you employ any kind of debugging in TNT?  If not, you could use
> something like this... (lifted directly from eicq-v8.el)
> [...]
> And then it is just a matter of calling `eicq-v8-debug' in any function
> that handles incoming packets (your sentinels/filters) and in any
> function that sends outgoing packets.

We do have code like that.  And I don't believe *anything* is coming back 
from the original connection, as far as I can tell.  I probably want to 
re-examine the code to be sure I have debug everywhere I should.


> And if that doesn't reveal anything useful, try something like tcpdump[1]
> to inspect the packets going in and out.

Good call, I'll grab Ethereal and try it out.  


Hm, it might be interesting to try a Cygwin build of XEmacs and see if it 
repros the problem...




gse