deal with partial reads on ack-numbers, plus make sure ubxtool waits on threads to output their buffers before exiting. Thanks to Jeff Sipek for finding these issues.

nmmsender.cc

@@ -58,24 +58,23 @@ void NMMSender::sendTCPThread(Destination* d)
         bool hadMessage=false;
         int msgnum = 0;
 
-        for(;;) {
+        for(;;) { 
           uint32_t num;
           // read acks
-          for(;;) {
+          for(; zsc ;) { // only do this for compressed protocol
-            int res = read(s, &num, 4);
+            try {
-            if(res < 0) {
+              readn2(s, &num, 4); // this will give us 4, or throw
+              num = ntohl(num);
+              unacked.erase(num);
+            }
+            catch(EofException& ee) {
+              throw std::runtime_error("EOF while reading acks");
+            }
+            catch(std::exception& e) {
               if(errno != EAGAIN)
                 unixDie("Reading acknowledgements in nmmsender");
               break;
             }
-            if(res==0)
-              throw std::runtime_error("EOF while reading acks");
-            if(res==4) {
-              num = ntohl(num);
-              unacked.erase(num);
-            }
-            else
-              throw std::runtime_error("Partial read of "+to_string(res)+" bytes");
           }
 
           
@@ -111,12 +110,14 @@ void NMMSender::sendTCPThread(Destination* d)
               zsc->flush();
 
               if(time(0) - connStartTime > 10 && unacked.size() > 1000)
-                throw std::runtime_error("Too many messages unacked, recycling connection");
+                throw std::runtime_error("Too many messages unacked ("+to_string(unacked.size())+"), recycling connection");
 
 
               
             }
             hadMessage = false;
+            if(d_pleaseQuit) 
+              return;
             usleep(100000);
 #if defined(TCP_CORK)
 	    /* linux-only: has an implied 200ms timeout */

nmmsender.hh

@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ public:
   {
     for(auto& d : d_dests) {
       if(!d->dst.empty()) {
-        std::thread t(&NMMSender::sendTCPThread, this, d.get());
+        d_thread.emplace_back(std::move(std::make_unique<std::thread>(&NMMSender::sendTCPThread, this, d.get())));
-        t.detach();
       }
     }
   }
@@ -48,7 +47,17 @@ public:
   void emitNMM(const NavMonMessage& nmm);
   bool d_debug{false};
   bool d_compress{false}; // set BEFORE launch
-
+  bool d_pleaseQuit{false};
+  ~NMMSender()
+  {
+    if(!d_thread.empty()) {
+      d_pleaseQuit = true;
+      for(auto& t : d_thread)
+        t->join();
+    }
+  }
+  
 private:
   std::vector<std::unique_ptr<Destination>> d_dests;
+  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<std::thread>> d_thread;
 };