FreeBSD Port: dkfilter-0.10_1

[Charles Mujie]

Yanagisawa-san,

I did some more troubleshooting of my own last night I found out that by
increasing the sleep time to 5 secs or more the problem doesn't occur. I
agree with you analysis that there is some kind of race condition
between line 48 and 52.

Thanks for the patch you e-mail me.  I've applied the patch and rebooted
a couple of times and it looks fine.

Thanks again.

/cm


Yoshisato YANAGISAWA wrote:

>Dear Charles,
>
>Thank you for reporting the problem.
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:17:16 -0700
>Charles Mujie <charles at ibrigge.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I have a question on dkfilter-0.10_1. I've managed to install the port
>>successfully and everything is running fine. However when I enable
>>dkfilter_out_enable="YES" in the /etc/rc.conf file it stops at line 52
>>"logger -t ${name} `cat ${tmpfile}`". I have to do a control-D to
>>continue the boot process. I was wandering if anyone has reported this
>>problem before.
>>    
>>
>
>Unfortunately, no one has reported this problem.
>However, I found that the same problem occured on my FreeBSD machine.
>
>I found a work around to avoid this problem.
>The work around is change the time in line 51 from 1 to 10 or something.
>I suppose that some kind of racing condition occurs between daemon
>command in line 48 and cat command in line 52.
>I also found that the same problem occurs even in dkfilter_in.
>This might also avoided with the work around above.
>
>I also made a patch, which is attached to this email.
>With the patch, dkfilter_out script will spin wait until a size of
>a temporary file becomes larger than 0, instead of just wating 1
>secound.  This patch fixed the problem on my FreeBSD machine.
>If the patch solves your problem, please let me know.
>I will sendpr this.
>
>Thank you,
>Yoshisato YANAGISAWA.
>
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