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

[Andriy Gapon]

The following reply was made to PR ports/151725; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>
Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>, gnome at freebsd.org,
        bug-followup at 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