Re: gnats/181: CHDB command must be issued twice in order to work

[Yngve Svendsen]

The following reply was made to PR gnats/181; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yngve Svendsen <address@hidden>
To: Milan Zamazal <address@hidden>,address@hidden
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnats/181: CHDB command must be issued twice in order to
  work
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:02:53 +0200

 At 22:47 14.10.2001 +0200, Yngve Svendsen wrote:
 >Hm. I think I have isolated the problem with the CHDB command to the 
 >find_chain_entry_nocopy in adm.c. I ran debug sessions on identical 
 >configs, and on Solaris, this subroutine returned (AdmEntry *) 0x0, and on 
 >Linux (AdmEntry *) 0x8078fd0.
 >
 >But I can't quite see why there should be a difference there?
 
 Sorry, my mistake. I am still not quite used to gdb -- seems I read the 
 value one step too early.
 
 I have, however, found another difference in behaviour:
 
 When I do the CHDB that fails, everything runs the same on the two OSes, 
 all the way to the call res = findDatabaseEntry (databaseEnt); in database.c
 
 On Linux, res == 0 after this call, but on Solaris, it is nonzero. Thus, 
 the following
 res = loadDatabase (databaseName, databaseEnt, err);
 is not run on Solaris.
 
 It does seem that this return value is the problem, because if I manually 
 set res to 0 after the findDatabaseEntry call on Solaris, the change of 
 database succeeds.
 
 - Yngve