Hi!
> Dave> If it's due to the change in the handling of forking off sub-processes,
> Dave> then it will have been broken since 5.1 - i.e. for almost a year.
> Dave> If it's taken that long to come to light, then I don't really think
> Dave> this counts as a "show stopper".
>
> Robert> I consider any segfault or non-recoverable hang of the agent
> Robert> a show-stopper.
>
> I'd certainly agree that this is a significant bug, which definitely
> needs fixing. I wouldn't want you to get the wrong idea about that.
>
> I'm just saying that (IMO) the seriousness of a given problem has to
> be judged alongside the likelihood of it actually biting. And the fact
> that it's taken so long to come to light, would tend to suggest that
> this isn't necessarily an "urgent" fix.
>
>
>
>
> Dave> I'm very reluctant to jeopardize the 5.2 release at this late stage.
> Robert> Ok. Well, a proposed 'official patch' for 5.2 can be found at
> [snip]
>
> Well, the first thing to say is well done in tracking down this problem
> and coming up with a patch so quickly. If you're happy that this is
> likely to fix the problem, then it's definitely worth applying it to
> the 5.1.x line. I don't see any reason to hold off there.
>
> But having looked at the code of the patch, IMO it's suffficiently
> non-trivial that it would be better applied to the 5.2 line *after*
> the release freeze has been lifted.
> But of course I'm happy to defer to the general consensus, if that
> prefers to apply this to 5.2 straight away.
Thanks for your numerous answers. I had many other things to do in the
meantime, thus the delay.
I'm sorry that I can't try to compile the current CVS version of
net-snmp or any patch. We're using Debian here and since this particular
snmpd instance is running on our firewall I don't like to experiment
around with compiling and so on. Currently I'm using version 5.0.7 or so
which does the job quite will. When the new 5.2 version is out and
Debian packages provided I'll give it a try and tell you if it works.
Thanks again
Hansi
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