Bug#462225: start-stop-deamon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument

as you say. It doesn't hurt to move it closer to the actual select-call just in case someone messes up the code later. =) Andreas Påhlsson Xcerion

Bug#462225: start-stop-deamon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument

I've reworked the patch to apply to 1.14.16.4. There are some subtle changes. * tsub is removed in favour of timersub (sys/time.h). * tmul is reimplemented as it was broken. * interval is checked right before select. There was a corner case if maxinterval was negative. regards, Andreas

Bug#462225: start-stop-deamon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument

Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: important Tags: patch Lighttpd often dies when rotating the logs. Trying to reproduce the error manually I got the following error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload * Reloading web server configuration lighttpd start-stop-daemon:

Bug#462225: start-stop-deamon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument

2 seconds of down time is a slight disaster. This fix solves the actual problem and at least should spawn a healthy rewrite of init.d and logrotate scripts in unstable. regards, Andreas Påhlsson Xcerion Please note that this message may contain confidential information. Unless explicitly so