Yup, some testing shows a segfault in the avahi code if the daemon isn't
running. I'm following their published example rather closely, so have
submitted a bug report to their tracker.
Paul Alfille
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Paul Alfille <[email protected]>wrote:
> It's a bit of a quandary. Having auto-configuration as an opt-in
> option sort of misses the point.
>
> Which is why I'd like to fix the problem.
>
> In any case, any configuration that causes a segfault should be
> unacceptable to us.
>
> --disable-zero for ./configure when compiling.
>
> Paul Alfille
>
> P.S. Can you tell me your configuration that causes the segfault?
> Debian version, and avahi/bonjour settings. That will give a platform
> to find the error.
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Sven Geggus<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Paul Alfille <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Briefly, this is something first poularized by Apple under the name of
> >> Bonjour. A server and udp protocol for devices and services (like
> >> printers, music sources, etc) to announce their presence and
> >> configuration.
> >
> > *Argh* sounds like something which one does not want to have at least by
> > default. When hearing about stuff like this upnp comes to mind and the
> > related security implications.
> >
> >> I use both Avahi and Bonjour as optional parts of OWFS. OWFS can be
> >> both a source (owserver or owhttpd) and a sink of owserver resources.
> >> The idea is that any program would find the owserver and you wouldn't
> >> have to bother finding an empty port and linking them.
> >>
> >> --nozero blocks this code (the autodiscovery).
> >
> > Can this be disabled as a compile time?
> >
> >> A better solution would be to find what is wrong and fix the bad library
> >> link.
> >
> > Due to the debian policy to enable every available compile time switch it
> is
> > almost impossible to remove libavahi and/or avahi-daemon from the system.
> >
> > For this reason I usually just disable the daemon to get started on
> system
> > startup. Could this be the reason for the segfault?
>
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