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Re: [Freeipmi-devel] race condition in sensors?


From: Anand Babu
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] race condition in sensors?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:00:05 -0800
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I think you are talking about the notorious NULLP exception.

If so,
Thats not race condition. It was because of data conversion between
guile and C core. It has already been fixed in current CVS and will be
available in Alpha5 QA1.

Happy Hacking,
-ab

,----
| For Alpha5-Qa0, when running "/usr/sbin/sensors -g Temperature" through
| a remote shell utility (i.e. "rsh ethunder15 /usr/sbin/sensors -g
| Temperature"), a "Cat at the Fish" error shows up around 80%-90% of the
| time.  A small percentage of the time, the error does not show up.
| 
| This smells like a possible race condition.  I haven't looked through
| the code in detail enough to see potential race possibilities, but I
| thought I'd mention it.
| 
| Al
| 
| --
| Albert Chu
| address@hidden
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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