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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Solaris 7 select() may hang on a /dev/null fd when time
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Mark D. Baushke |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Solaris 7 select() may hang on a /dev/null fd when timeout == NULL |
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Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:20:42 -0700 |
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> "Mark D. Baushke" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I would like to see it or something like it added
> > to the GNULIB project.
>
> Does any package other than CVS care about working around this bug?
I do not know of any at present.
> If not, I'd rather just leave this stuff in the CVS source code for
> now.
I can add it to the CVS source for now. I suppose it could always be
made available via GNULIB later if there is a need in the next year or
so before Solaris 7 becomes unsupported.
> If so, I'd rather call the new module and the source files something
> like fairly specialized like "sunos57-select" or something like that.
> There are lots of reasons to want "select" replacements, and this
> module is just one of them.
You raise a reasonable point. I will plan on using the sunos57-select
name for the CVS version.
Did the rest of the submission match the requisite coding and naming
standards?
> One other point. SunOS 5.7 (aka Solaris 7) is getting up there in
> age. Sun will stop supporting it (i.e., they will stop fixing any
> bugs in it) on 2005-08-15. So if you have any users that are relying
> on SunOS 5.7, I suggest that they contact Sun on their software
> support contracts and have this kernel bug fixed now, since Sun will
> refuse to fix it ten months from now. (And if no users are willing to
> do this, perhaps it's not all that important for CVS to work around
> the bug....)
The problem has been reported. I am waiting to hear what (if anything)
Sun is prepared to do about it.
> If Sun no longer supports an OS then to some extent it's a waste of
> our resources to having the GNU project support it.
Okay, I understand.
> As SunOS 5.7 support dies in August, perhaps sunos57-select should
> have a limited lifespan.
What would you suggest as a limited lifespan? One year? Two years?
> PS. That bug goes back at least to SunOS 5.5.1, by the way. It was
> fixed in SunOS 5.8. See:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=772hjs%244k6%241%40empoli.tasking.nl
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=casper.936708780%40uk-usenet.uk.sun.com
Okay, thank you for the pointer.
Thanks,
-- Mark
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