[leafnode-list] Re: Fetchnews blocks on network read

[Tomislav Petrović]

Sorry, I forgot:

version: leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20070108a
current machine: Linux news 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 
2007 i686 GNU/Linux
bindir: /usr/bin
sysconfdir: /etc/news/leafnode
default spooldir: /var/spool/news
IPv6: yes
default MTA: /usr/sbin/sendmail
pcre version: 6.7 04-Jul-2006


Tomislav Petrović said on 16.5.2007 15:59:
> Sometimes I experience fetchnews blocking on read from network.
> It fetches messages and then blocks until I kill it with SIGTERM.
> 
> I have attached both fetchnews log and strace log.
> 
> In this particluar run fetchenws was started in 14:35 and i killed
> it in 15:35 because it was blocked in network read.
> 
> Can you verify if blocking reads without timeout are used for
> reading from network?
> And if they are could it be changed so some timeout is used?
> Is there some workaround to this I can do externally?


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