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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 11/9/10 12:36 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ah, I missed that.  I wonder if it would be safer then to ignore SIGPIPE
around the write block.

Joe

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