[avahi] Problems when avahi deamon is not startet on startup

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 08.08.08 21:58, Nathan Huesken (avahi at lonely-star.org) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently trying around with avahi. My test client works, but
> only if the avahi daemon is already started when the test client
> starts.

Yes, the client needs the server to work. Is that surprising?


> I am watching the timeouts, avahi requests. When I start the test
> client with no avahi deamon running, the only timeout that remains
> is set to tv_sev=0 and tv_usec=0 (midnight?). This timeout of course
> is not called (for quite a while), so avahi has no chance of
> retrying to connect to the deamon.

tv_sec=tv_usec=0 is 1 jan, 1970. We use it to have time events
dispatched as soon as possible, since normally time events are
dispatched as soon as the time they are created with is past.


Lennart

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