On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:09:25PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:30:15PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > I looked through some of the diffs and noted your are introducing a
> > race in calendar_fifo.diff. Why are you changing this code?
>
> Because the old code blocks if a named pipe is used as a calendar file, a bug
> report is here:
>
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bsdmainutils/+bug/357055
>
> Michael
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Introducing a race is never the right solution, imo.
By the way, your fix does not catch an included file being a fifo
either. So while introducing a race, it actually does not fix the
problem.
-Otto
