[Dnsmasq-discuss] segfaults in 2.39 after a while
Joe Landman
landman at scalableinformatics.com
Sun Jun 17 17:53:51 BST 2007
Hi Simon:
Simon Kelley wrote:
> I'm out beyond the wilder shores of Unix process-law here. Any idea
> exactly what happens so that is can be guarded against? I'm unhappy with
> the idea that it's possible to segfault the daemon any way.
Here is a WAG. The parent spawns a child, which, while the parent is
waiting on the child to complete, the child causes the parent to
restart/die. Which as the resources have not been freed (since the
child process is still effectively locking the parent process, the dead
one), the new process cannot effectively access the resources.
> HUP is fine as long as the configuration you are changing is in
> /etc/ethers. The next release will go further and have the ability to
> (re-)read a file which can contain complete dhcp-host type machine
> information. That allows on-the-fly update of tags, client-id and lease
> times, as well as MAC/IP address.
Cool. I am dumping my cluster information into
/etc/cluster/hosts.cluster. All I want dnsmasq to do is to reread that
file. I think HUP does it, I was just being lazy with a restart (old
code, replaced with a simpler bit of new code).
BTW: the tftp server is quite nice. Using it extensively, along with
dhcp, and of course the dns functions.
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> Cheers,
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> Simon.
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