Re: Kyle's controlport bug

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:44:09PM -0800, Kyle Williams wrote:
> This is just a theory, no hard facts to back it up.
> When I'm messing around with Tor's ControlPort, I've noticed that my Tor
> traffic just hangs until whatever I'm doing on the ControlPort stops.  There
> have been a couple of times where I do something very wrong on the
> controlport and Tor just "freezes" (does not route any traffic) until I
> close my connection with the ControlPort.   I'm wondering if the same is
> true for when someone is fetching descriptors from the DirPort?

Hi Kyle,

I'd love to hear more details on this. It would be a bad bug indeed.
But I've never encountered or heard about anything like it, so far. :)

Thanks,
--Roger