On 12/14/2011 06:26 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as you may have noticed, there was thread about ipmitool getting
> stucked. I dug into this issue and found the problem.
>
> Line to blame is:
> ~~~ 'src/plugins/open/open.c' ~~~
> if (select(intf->fd+1,&rset, NULL, NULL, NULL)< 0) {
> lperror(LOG_ERR, "I/O Error");
> return NULL;
> }
> ~~~ 'src/plugins/open/open.c' ~~~
>
> Using select() here is good/wise. However select() is never going to
> time-out, because time-out is set to NULL. I believe I can patch it in
> the very same way, at least for time-out option, as LAN/LAN-PLUS is
> patched by Harshad Prabhu. Yet, I'm wondering whether it is a good
> idea to do so. Whether there is some reason why this, open driver -
> KCS interface, should never ever time-out.
That's fine, I suppose, but the driver is designed to always return a
response, a timeout error if nothing comes back. So a timeout here is
really unnecessary.
-corey
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