[isf-wifidog] Wifidog Thread Hung

[Mina Naguib]

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I've updated CVS with this change.

It compiles fine, and "runs". I have however not tested it yet.

If there are any hackers burning the midnight oil feel free to test the 
change, otherwise I will test it sometime tomorrow.

On 16-May-05, at 10:26 PM, Philippe April wrote:

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> Hey,
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> We've noticed it at some places, it's a silent bug.
>
> The counters thread seems to hang, on a read(), it must be hanging on 
> a read() while updating the counters on the auth server. Ran a strace, 
> all the threads are doing something but that one.
>
> It happened at my house. Basically the node stays up, the counters are 
> never updated (so we don't know who logs in, etc.) The new people just 
> create new entries in the mangle table, I don't know if they get 
> access or if they're denied.
>
> Mina will most likely add a timeout to the read() just so we can at 
> least do something about it (flag, etc.)
>
> Thanks Mina!
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