[BRLTTY] strange behavior udev and systemd

Sébastien Hinderer Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Thu Nov 26 03:39:38 EST 2020


Samuel Thibault (2020/11/26 09:31 +0100):
> Sébastien Hinderer, le jeu. 26 nov. 2020 08:39:11 +0100, a ecrit:
> > When several instances of BRLTTY are started, each instance that is
> > asked to run a BrlAPI server will do so and, by default, the servers
> > will be listening on ocnsecutive TCP ports.
> 
> consecutive?
> 
> I don't think there is anything in the brltty source to make them
> consecutive?  I would have rather thought that they all try to bind on
> the default TCP port, and the BRLTTY started last will wait for the
> previous BRLTTY to shutdown before being able to establish its BrlAPI
> server.

Oh! I'm sorry for my misleading message then!

I was sure at some point we had some code to look for the first free TCP
port starting with our base IANA port and choosing that one.

Really sorry.

Sébastien.


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