Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 05:40:11 GMT From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/151725: sysutils/hal: hald fails to start with dbus-1.4 Message-ID: <201011090540.oA95eBwC045650@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, gnome@freebsd.org,
bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/151725: sysutils/hal: hald fails to start with dbus-1.4
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:36:13 +0200
on 09/11/2010 02:14 Kevin Oberman said the following:
> I'll try this as soon as I can. I'm not too sure that it will happen as
> I think that this is somehow timing related. I suspect that the entry is
> disappearing too quickly with 1.4 in some cases but is not a problem
> with 1.2. Perhaps some optimization?
>
> I suggest this because on at least rare occasion, 1.4 did run
> successfully, not because I have any clue what was happening under the
> covers.
I guess that I already explained this part.
The problem happened because we tried to write something (even if it's just zero
sized something) into stdin of a child process that already exited.
Sometimes the child process was quicker, sometimes the parent process was
quicker, hence the non-determinism.
--
Andriy Gapon
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