Subj : binkd crashes when reloading after file change detection
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jan 20 2022 08:55 am
On 2022 Jan 20 14:18:08, you wrote to me:
MV> In an attempt to provoke the crashes I created an empty include file for my
MV> binkd config file. With the Windows task manager I created an event that
MV> touched the date/time stamp of this empy file every five minutes. The
MV> rescan delay for my binkd is set to 60.
i remember you posting about this... it is one of the things that lead to me attempting to reproduce the defect here on my OS/2 setup at that time... now i'm on linux and the defect still exists...
MV> This was about five years ago. I let it run for a month or so. Binkd
MV> reloaded its config every 5 minutes and that did not cause a crash.
MV> So I thought "hmmm this version of binkd seems to have fixed the
MV> problem". But alas when I made changes in the actual config files the
MV> crashes reappeared. So it looks like it is not just the reloading the
MV> config files as such, some of the config files must actually change to
MV> make it crash.
MV> I gave up and stopped using the -C option.
i've continued to use it but have always stopped my binkd manually before making and saving edits... at this time, though, i wanted to test for this defect specifically because i had been talking with some other operators about binkd and had noted that it can automatically reload its configs when changes have been made to them... since i had not been seeing crashes every day when my fidonet.binkd.txt nodelist is updated, i wondered about updating the other config files and if things were working there... as it happens, i triggered the defect and here we are with this current thread about it...
i must say that i find it quite strange that updating the contents of one included file will trigger the defect but updating another included file isn't even noticed at all...
MV> I did not formally document it at the time, so I am relying om memory.
my memory of your original posting appears to match what you write here :)
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