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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:39:31 -0600
From:      Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
To:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: ntpd hangs under FBSD 8
Message-ID:  <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB39E95567@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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>I bet ntpd doesn't call select() in all that many places.  Instead of goin=
g to all this trouble to build a debugging libc, you could just
>grep for select() and place breakpoints on all occurrences.  (It might als=
o be obvious from looking at them which one is the offender.)

I just checked--there are five calls to select. I might flag each one with =
a printf or something and recompile to see which one is the culprit.

>Also, since a system call is causing the trouble, you might learn somethin=
g from truss or ktrace.

I'll check these out...



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