Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Debian-specific patches to bootlogd introduce a bug where it does not
flush the standard output buffer at all unless the "-d" flag is passed.
This often causes single-line messages to be missing from the boot log
for a long time.
The solution is to call fflush(3) after a full line is retrieved from
the console, but not call fdatasync(2) unless the "-d" option is given.
This patch may fix the problem; it compiles but is not well-tested yet.
----Scott.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-61 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsepol1 2.0.30-2 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities
sysvinit recommends no packages.
sysvinit suggests no packages.
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--- bootlogd.c.orig 2009-08-19 20:26:35.000000000 -0400
+++ bootlogd.c 2009-08-19 20:26:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
break;
case '\n':
didnl = 1;
- dosync = syncalot;
+ dosync = 1;
break;
case '\t':
line.pos += (line.pos / 8 + 1) * 8;
@@ -370,7 +370,9 @@
if (dosync) {
fflush(fp);
- fdatasync(fileno(fp));
+ if (syncalot) {
+ fdatasync(fileno(fp));
+ }
}
outptr += olen;
