ports/151725: sysutils/hal: hald fails to start with dbus-1.4

[Andriy Gapon]

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.

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Andriy Gapon