While monitoring the effect of my latest VMS_TDB changes, I discovered that messages.tdb wasn't clearing properly due to assumtions Samba makes about the the select() function. The samba code assumes that a signal sent to a process will abort a select call with the errno EINTR, but by default the VMS CRTL does not abort the call. The select calls need to be interrupted so that messages queued to the process will be retreived from messages.tdb in a timely fashion.
An ECO added to TCP/IP services 5.0 or later will enable the desired behavior if you define the environment variable TCPIP$SELECT_ABORT_ON_SIGNAL. It would be unwise to make this a system-wide definition, since it would likely break other applications that depend upon the old behavior. Probably the best place to add this definition would be in SMBD_WORKER.COM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David L. Jones | Phone: (614) 292-6929 Ohio State University | Internet: 140 W. 19th St. Rm. 231a | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbus, OH 43210 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: I'm looking for marbles all day long. PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
