Sorry--I've firing off these msgs a little too quickly! If you look
at the strace output in my first msg, you'll see that the problem
is that post, w/o MHCONTEXT set, is trying to lock */dev/null* via
creating files named /dev/,LCK*, which in turn causes a 30 second hang.
Here's the specifics:
sbr/context_foil.c context_foil() sets (line 24)
defpath = context = "/dev/null";
uip/post.c main() -alias in calls alias()
uip/aliasbr.c alias() calls etcpath()
config/config.c etcpath() calls context_read()
sbr/context_read.c context_read() does (~line 120)...
if ((cp = getenv ("MHCONTEXT")) == (char *)0 || *cp == '\0')
cp = context;
getenv("MHCONTEXT") fails, cp gets set to "/dev/null"
sbr/context_read.c context_read() sets ctxpath to cp on line ~124
sbr/context_read.c context_read() does (~line 126)...
if ((ib = lkfopen (ctxpath, "r"))) {
where ctxpath is "/dev/null"
lkfopen("/dev/null","r") hangs trying to lock via /dev/,LCK* files
Setting MHCONTEXT is a fine work-around.
I have no idea how to appropiately fix the problem. If someone
can point me in the right direction, I'd be happy to take a stab
at it.
steve
- - -
systems & network manager
high energy physics
university of wisconsin
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