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On Tuesday 19 July 2005 02:08 pm, Eric Brown wrote: |
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> I do see how timing could be an issue for sleeps, but I would personally |
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> much rather have a timeout variable in conf.d somewhere rather than no |
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> check at all. |
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because you're only looking at one side of the race condition |
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your check goes to sleep for 3 seconds ... then the service starts up but |
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because it's a slow CPU, it takes 10 seconds to get to the config file |
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parsing where it fails and exits silently ... when the check wakes back up it |
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goes 'hey, service is still running, all is good' |
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-mike |
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