On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:38:06PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > With a hint from Paul Jantzen I did test this a bit further. There's
> > code to avoid having a child runing too long. If you have 20s
> > patience, you'll see this:
> >
> > calendar: uid 1000 did not finish in time
>
> Now that's interesting. I certainly don't see this message. Here's what I did:
>
> $ mkfifo c
> $ ./calendar -f c
>
> I killed the program after 40 minutes without any action from it, strace
> verifies it still waits in open(). Could it be that this works differently on
> OpenBSD?
Yes indeed. Likely we diverged here from net and freebsd.
In particular, rev 1.15 op calendar.c and rev 1.13 of io.c are relevant.
BTW, there's a slight problem with the current code that kills the
child after a timeout. Paul Janzen sent me a diff I'm currently testing.
-Otto
