Hi,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2016-06-24 15:23:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > Now this occurs very often:
> > [...]
> >
> > But I cannot reproduce the failure with strace.
> > A race condition somewhere?
>
> Thanks for that hint. That is a possible explaination why I have
> issues reproducing it as well as why users see it with some versions
> more often than with others despite the accused patch hasn't seen a
> change for quite a while.
While I was able to reproduce the issue rather often (about 30% of all
calls) with one local build, I was later no more able to do so despite
having built the package from the very same commit again. Also
installing 4.4.0-3 didn't help to reproduce the issue again, despite
Vincent confirmed that it happened with that version on his machine.
:-/
> I'll check the patch for a potential race condition. But I do also
> consider disabling it as there nowadays are enough evidentiary facts
> that it's really the cause for this issue.
Jan Christoph Nordholz, the original author of the patch, tried to fix
the issue, but since he couldn't reproduce it nor I can't reproduce it
anymore, even with the old packages, I can not verify or guarantee
that the fix actually works for all users.
So please reopen this bug report in case you run into the "WriteMessage:
Bad file descriptor" again with Debian's screen package, version
4.4.0-4 or later.
I'd also be happy about confirmations that this bug is indeed fixed
with today's upload (4.4.0-4).
Thanks in advance for any feedback on this issue!
Regards, Axel
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