Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:36:13 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/151725: sysutils/hal: hald fails to start with dbus-1.4 Message-ID: <4CD8DDCD.3010902@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20101109001442.F27651CC0E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20101109001442.F27651CC0E@ptavv.es.net>
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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
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