<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></p><p style="color:#A0A0A8;">On June 13, 2013 at 15:26:31 , Ray Pekowski (pekowski@gmail.com) wrote:</p> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Eric Windisch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@cloudscaling.com" target="_blank">eric@cloudscaling.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><p></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For TCP, I prefer the port-0 approach, but there would need to be a way to determine which port the backdoor is listening on. I think having this represented in logs would be sufficient.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Would you give a +1 to a resubmit of the patch with the backdoor_port option deprecated and replaced it with a boolean option called enable_backdoor? Or are you of the opinion that the current backdoor_port option is not broken?<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></span></span></div><p><br></p><p>I'm not sure I'd classify it as 'broken', but I think it is bad at present.</p><p>A boolean would be better. For determining the port, I'd rather it be random. More than that, as before stated, I'd prefer a unix socket.</p><p>To make this a unix socket, you'd have to create the socket yourself and then pass that to eventlet.backdoor.backdoor_server(), rather than using eventlet.backdoor.backdoor()</p><p><br></p></span></span></div><p>Regards,</p><p>Eric Windisch</p><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Ray</div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>