Hi John, On 07/14/2011 03:36 PM, John Wolfe wrote: > lib/rpcIn/rpcin.c & rpcin.h have 2 forms of the functions: > > RpcIn_Construct() > RpcIn_Start() > > with a different number of parameters and parameter type. The > selection is controlled by the define VMTOOLS_USE_GLIB.
> lib/rpcIn contains no similar specification in the Makefile.am > and as a result, rpcin.c is compiled WITHOUT the VMTOOLS_USE_GLIB > define and thus the wrong form of the functions are compiled. rpcin.c is currently compiled twice in open-vm-tools: once when compiling lib/rpcIn, the second time when compiling libvmtools (it's listed in the source files list in libvmtools/Makefile.am). The second time, VMTOOLS_USE_GLIB is defined. Since there's no more code that uses the non-glib version in open-vm-tools, I have already changed this in our internal source tree so it's only done once. But even in the current released sources for open-vm-tools, the makefiles should be doing the right thing. As for why this seems to influence heartbeats in your case, I don't know. The heartbeat is not an explicit message, it's recorded implicitly by just polling the backdoor, which is what the rpcIn library does. So if vmtoolsd is running and running the rpcIn loop, the heartbeat should be updated. -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
