Re: ion-statusd eating up 100% cpu

On 2008-06-23 22:25 +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> The attached patch might fix the issue, if this is the case.
> However, now there's a potential for another race condition:
> what if the signal gets delivered before we call select()?
> Without repetion, we might never return from select() to
> handle the timer signal. pselect() would solve this problem,
> but it was not implemented in linux until 2.6.16, and glibc
> has an emulation prone to the same race conditions. Also
> the changes needed maybe too big for inclusion into Ion3.
> (The patch is found in the Ion3+ darcs repository, however.)

(And as I recall mentioning in the Ion3+ wishlist thread, I'm open
to a contributed quality patch replacing libmainloop with libevent [1], 
in order to not have to do redundant work in maintaining similar code.)

  [1]: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

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Tuomo