On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Harri Porten wrote:
> I am not Brian but I am happy to report that the bug has been identified
> (and fixed) due to the debugging work of Ian Gordon
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> kppp has its own little scripting engine that uses a socket notifier to
> poll the serial port. There was a race condition that could lead to a
> situation where the notifier got accidentally re-enabled AFTER the end
> of the script. Further data got read and .... taken away from pppd :(.
> I hope that this case is closed now since it caused a flood of bug
> reports I wasn't able to reproduce on my machine.
THANK YOU! I upgraded my RH5.2 with Mandrake 5.3 last weekend, and was
about to file a kppp bug report myself. My previous XISP installation
still worked, but I wasted a lot of time trying to get kppp to recognize
otherwise successful connects.
Is a patched RPM out yet?
Geof Goodrum
Voice: +1-301-457-5100
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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