Re: [exim] Re: Exim 4.42 sleeping "forever"

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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To: Alex Kiernan
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] Re: Exim 4.42 sleeping "forever"
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Alex Kiernan wrote:

> We (think) we understand... setitimer is supposed to return EINVAL for
> non-canonical values
> (http://www.unix.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/setitimer.html),
> checking on Solaris 9 and FreeBSD 4.8, that is indeed the case (and
> its *not* on Fedora Core 2), so we end up going to sleep forever,
> having ignored the return from setitimer and end up waiting for an
> event which will never happen.


Thanks for the report and for the further information. I've noted it for
investigation.

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