[isf-wifidog] Wifidog Thread Hung

[Mina Naguib]

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Sweet.  Thanks Philippe.

On 17-May-05, at 8:25 AM, Philippe April wrote:
> I'm testing it at home right now, it seems to work properly, however I 
> haven't tested with multiple users and such, but it should be alright.
>
> If by the end of the day everything's still good (tonight), I'll 
> deploy packages.
>
> On 16-May-05, at 11:00 PM, Mina Naguib wrote:
>> 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:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> 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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