this analysis is as correct as thye provided diff, which has been
committed.
* Anirban Sinha [2008-12-05 03:07]:
> Hi:
>
> I am sort of digging my way through the OpenNTPD codebase for my work. I
> think I find a bug in the code. Please help me to understand the reason
> if this is not a bug.
>
>I'd take a look at your other diff later.
Thanks for patching the upstream source in cvs with my patch.
Ani
>
> -Otto
> From: Tom Van Looy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:50 AM
> To: Anirban Sinha
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?
>
> >>Why would you assume that? That seems a bit hostile. Perhaps the
> >
>I would like to respond to this with a small anecdote: I opened a call
>at vendor x at 17/sep/2008. The call resulted in me having to open a
>design change request for their OS. So, 65 days later (coincidently
>today), I received a "tracking number" and probably have to wait an
>other (max) 90
>>Why would you assume that? That seems a bit hostile. Perhaps the
>>developers are a bit busy at the moment.
>
>True. I generally post on the Linux lists and I believe I am spoiled by
getting quick responses from my postings. In future, I will remember to keep
more patience.
I would like to respo
Hi!
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:36:46PM -0800, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>>How is it blocking indefinitely? Is wait() not returning -1 with
>>errno == ECHILD when there are no children to reap? What led you to
>>the conclusion that this code was blocking? (What platform are you
>>running this on?)
>
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:03:32PM -0800, Anirban Sinha wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am sort of digging my way through the OpenNTPD codebase for my work. I
> think I find a bug in the code. Please help me to understand the reason
> if this is not a bug.
>
> In function ntp_main() (ntp.c), we poll() to chec
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is yet another bug in Openntpd. This is direct copy-paste from
> > openntpd code (ntpd.c:main()):
> >
> > do {
> >if ((pid = wait(NU
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:05:05AM -0600, Todd Alan Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hope I will get some response to this. If not, I will assume that
> > there is really no interest in fixing bugs in openntpd and in that case,
>
> Why
>Why would you assume that? That seems a bit hostile. Perhaps the
>developers are a bit busy at the moment.
True. I generally post on the Linux lists and I believe I am spoiled by getting
quick responses from my postings. In future, I will remember to keep more
patience.
Ani
>How is it blocking indefinitely? Is wait() not returning -1 with
>errno == ECHILD when there are no children to reap? What led you to
>the conclusion that this code was blocking? (What platform are you
>running this on?)
Hmm, agreed. Looks like I was wrong with my analysis. In any case, I am
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope I will get some response to this. If not, I will assume that
> there is really no interest in fixing bugs in openntpd and in that case,
Why would you assume that? That seems a bit hostile. Perhaps the
developers are
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is yet another bug in Openntpd. This is direct copy-paste from
> openntpd code (ntpd.c:main()):
>
> do {
>if ((pid = wait(NULL)) == -1 &&
>errno != EINTR && errno != ECHILD)
>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:10:20PM -0800, Anirban Sinha wrote:
> I hope I will get some response to this. If not, I will assume that
> there is really no interest in fixing bugs in openntpd and in that case,
> I will patch only our local copy of the ntpd codebase (as opposed to
> reporting to the
ot, I will assume that
there is really no interest in fixing bugs in openntpd and in that case,
I will patch only our local copy of the ntpd codebase (as opposed to
reporting to the community).
Thanks,
Ani
>-Original Message-----
>From: Anirban Sinha
>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008
Hi:
I am sort of digging my way through the OpenNTPD codebase for my work. I
think I find a bug in the code. Please help me to understand the reason
if this is not a bug.
In function ntp_main() (ntp.c), we poll() to check if there are any
events of interest. We do this:
1. Check internal fds (PI
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