2015-09-22 0:09 GMT+02:00 Jan Kandziora <j...@gmx.de>:

> Am 21.09.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Jan Kandziora:
> >
> > Fortunately, I can narrow these crashes down to undefined behaviour
> >
> > * when a property in the config file is of for example "u" type
> > * and the script called does not return any data, or something which
> > cannot be parsed as configured.
> >
> > One could argue "okay, it's configured as unsigned so it should always
> > return an unsigned integer" but calling the script may fail for some
> > reason and the last thing we want in this case is having owserver crash.
> >
> >
> > I'm currently thinking how to fix this.
> >
> Paul, you have to help me here. For some odd reason FS_r_external() is
> not allowed to fail.
>
> If I change module/owlib/src/c/ow_read_external.c:52 into
>         return 0 ;
>
> all is okay. If I place "return -ENOENT ;" there, I get the owserver
> crash always when accessing an external node. Same as with the original
> "return zoe ;" when the node returns -EINVAL. The problem is connected
> to the error condition, not to the bad data.


Jan, I have to admit, that currently I don't have any devel host to test
this. But reading your observation I wonder, if this would fail for other
sensor types as well...
What about trying to patch the fake adapter or maybe any other to always
return -EINVAL - does owserver crash as well?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Owfs-developers mailing list
Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers

Reply via email to