[Nut-upsdev] [nut-commits] svn commit r1376 - in trunk: . server

[Arnaud Quette]

2008/4/8, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>:
> > right. there are many things that we talked about with Russell (a long
>  > time ago) that are still to be done. And I'm pleased to see that
>  > you're working on it ;-)
>
>
> The most urgent problem, is probably blocking on connect() that was
>  troubling for a while in the 'netxml-ups' driver, but turns out to be just
>  as big a problem in the upsclient library.
>
>  Until recently, we have worked around blocking on read() and write() in
>  some clients (most notably, 'upsmon') by prepending alarm() calls to the
>  library functions. Now that the read/write functions to the library no
>  longer use blocking I/O, these can (and will) be removed.
>
>  Surprisingly, we never used this mechanism on upscli_connect(), which
>  can/will block just like the read/write actions did. Until recently, I
>  wasn't even aware that this might be (and actually is) a problem. Should
>  we attempt to solve this in nut-2.2.2 or (preferably) leave this for
>  nut-2.4.0 (so that we have a bit more time to see if the changes are
>  portable)?

I don't want to retain much more 2.2.2 since it should have already
been released for some time.
so, leaving this for 2.4 is fair enough

Arnaud
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