+---------- On Feb 5, atf said: > I seem to have run into a probelm previously reported back in August > 2000. Namely, the server hangs when ns_rand is used (the offending > function seems to be Ns_DRand in random.c). > > Rob Mayoff had posted a patch that applied to version 3.0. Would > anybody happen to know if this bug is still in the codebase? The > function has changed since the first time this bug was posted, although > the behaviour appears to have remained.
Jim Davidson checked in a similar, but slightly different, fix for this on 2000/8/25, according to CVS: ---------------------------- revision 1.5 date: 2000/08/25 13:47:50; author: jgdavidson; state: Exp; lines: +46 -56 Fixed deadlock between Ns_DRand/Ns_GenSeeds. ---------------------------- What version of AOLserver are you using?
