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[freeipdb-hackers] Re: ipdb_ck.pl DANGEROUS

Ben April
Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:55:15 -0700

Folks-
        If any of you would like to post from a different address
        feel free to send me the addresses you would send from along
        with the address that is on the list and I will add post-only
        entries for you. 

        5+ years ago this would have been an open list but today
        the spam is just too much.

        The other option would be to get a few people to moderate.
        I'm not opposed to that but list traffic seems kinda low for that.
        

        Thanks
        ben

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003, at 16:39 US/Eastern, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> >
> >[ Note: for some reason, I'm not seeing it loop [ while($changes) ]
> >  as it should after inserting these lines. Naturally, it works just
> >  fine when you run ddd on it. Suspect perl bug. ]
> 
> I take that back. There is no perl bug, instead there is a relatively 
> harmless race condition in ipdb_ck: The hold-time on the cleared blocks 
> is set to now+1, but the while loop executes in less than 1 second. Oh 
> well. "sleep(1)" would fix this, or, better, just set the holdtime to 
> now instead.
> 
> [resend; damn closed list]
> 

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