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Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives |
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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:41:47 -0400 |
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Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> I still see that PPS is still randomly failing at startup. That was not
> in 3.9 needs to be fixed in 3.10.
I'll try to reproduce this here. I can now live-test PPS on the serial port
of the TCX0 eval box.
> And, probably related, the PPS thread is now usually dropping root
> permissions before opening /dev/pps0, so kernel PPS is now broken.
> Sometimes the PPS thread does manage to open /dev/pps0, but when it reads
> pps0 it later it gets no data and PPS fails.
>
> Given the longstanding bug that PPS can only be started when ggpsd
> starts the solution to all three problems may be just to not drop root
> on the PPS thread.
Er, is that even possible? Don't all threads associated with a process
get the permissions of the process, whatever they are?
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- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Gary E. Miller, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Greg Troxel, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Eric S. Raymond, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Gary E. Miller, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Gary E. Miller, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Eric S. Raymond, 2013/10/17
Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Andy Walls, 2013/10/16