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Bug#606280: marked as done (busybox-syslogd: /etc/init.d/busybox-klogd spews garbage on stderr)

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and subject line Re: busybox-syslogd: /etc/init.d/busybox-klogd spews garbage on stderr
has caused the Debian Bug report #606280,
regarding busybox-syslogd: /etc/init.d/busybox-klogd spews garbage on stderr
to be marked as done.

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Package: busybox-syslogd
Severity: minor

The `running' shell function in this script (also used in
/etc/init.d/busybox-syslogd) suffers from a minor race-condition that
causes it to emit irrelevant messages on stderr: the /proc/[1-9]*/stat
glob is expanded first and then passed to `cut' which then has
to open those files, but some of them will have disappeared in
the mean time.
A simple fix is to redirect stderr to /dev/null.
Maybe a better fix is to juunk this `running' function and use one of
the standard thingies like start-stop-daemon instead.


	Stefan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Version: 1:1.17.1-8

07.12.2010 23:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Package: busybox-syslogd
> Severity: minor
> 
> The `running' shell function in this script (also used in
> /etc/init.d/busybox-syslogd) suffers from a minor race-condition that
> causes it to emit irrelevant messages on stderr: the /proc/[1-9]*/stat
> glob is expanded first and then passed to `cut' which then has
> to open those files, but some of them will have disappeared in
> the mean time.

This has been fixed for squeeze but the bug remained open somehow.
Closing it now.

Thanks!

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