Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Time-out for KCS resp. open interface driver

[Zdenek S. <zde...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Corey Minyard <tcm...@gm...> wrote:
[...]
>>>> ~~~ 'src/plugins/open/open.c' ~~~
>>>>       if (select(intf->fd+1,&rset, NULL, NULL, NULL)<    0) {
>>>>               lperror(LOG_ERR, "I/O Error");
>>>>               return NULL;
>>>>       }
>>>> ~~~ 'src/plugins/open/open.c' ~~~
>>>>
>>>> Using select() here is good/wise. However select() is never going to
>>>> time-out, because time-out is set to NULL. I believe I can patch it in
[...]
> Can you reproduce?  That is a driver bug if so, and I'd prefer to fix it.
>
> -corey

For example with Oracle/Sun servers stop IPMI stack in ILOM.
The select() mentioned above is never going to fail, because there is
no time-out set. Thus "I/O error" is never going to happen.

Yes, I can reproduce this anytime.

Z.