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From: ronald@demon.co.uk (Ronald Khoo)
Subject: xntp3.3zd: permanent sleep in resolver
Message-ID: <Ct54BL.BFy@demon.co.uk>
Organization: Demon Internet Limited
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 14:30:57 GMT
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I couldn't find a bug report mail address in [A-Z]* in the distribution
and the gurus seem to post here so:
Version: xntp3.3zd
System: NetBSD/sparc 1.0-Alpha (4.4-lite BSD)
Symptoms: xntpd forks and the fork hangs when hostnames are put into ntp.conf
the hosts thus mentioned do not get listed as peers.
Cause: ntp_intres calls sleep() with SIGALRM blocked.
Fix: I just stuffed a unblock_io_and_alarm(); before the sleep(SLEEPTIME);
around line 183 of ntp_intres.c. If you want a proper patch, wait
for the official patch and in the meantime use raw IP addresses if
your implementation of sleep() requires SIGALRM to not be blocked :-)
Question is, what *should* sleep() do if entered with SIGALRM blocked ?
That's a question for comp.unix.bsd....
Have a nice day.
--
Ronald Khoo, Notwork Bod <ronald@cpm.my>