Re: Bug#33741: Timeouts do not function properly in dip_3.3.7p-2

[Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi>]

Hi,
I received the bug below.
The code didn't change between the two versions, but ... libc did :-)
Th ecode is using SIGALARM to handle the timeout, and the alarm()
sys call.
Do you know of any changes that can make alarm(0) never raise the signal?
The previous version mentioned in the bug is based on libc5

thanx,
fab
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On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:27:07PM -0800, Matthew Ghio wrote:
> Package: dip
> Version: 3.3.7p-2
> 
> The 'wait' command does not properly handle timeout values; if no input is
> received, dip will wait forever.
> 
> This bug does not occur in version 3.3.7o-2.  Users may wish to correct this
> problem by installing the older version.
> 
> I am using kernel 2.0.35; versions of the packages that dip depends on are
> libc6 2.0.7t-1, liblockdev0g 0.9a

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