Please excuse the top-post...
I will make an offer again, anyone that needs access to a FreeBSD box for
development, please contact me. I have a 5.4 box that I can create a jail
on (ie: you can have a sandboxed root) and a 4.11 box as well.
Thanks,
Charles
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Christophe Yayon wrote:
>> Andreas,
>>
>> in others words, it appears that Nagios is right and FreeBSD do not accept
>> the 'fork method' choice of Nagios...
>
> Most likely, yes. It does, however, appear that the spec should either be
> fixed so that it is absolutely certain how a fork()'ing application should
> behave, and they should definitely leave suggestions out of it, since those
> have a way of being misinterpreted as recommendations.
>
> Perhaps the threads library shouldn't bother with mutexes and just leave it
> to the application coder to make sure a fork()'ed thread never runs into a
> deadlock. That seems by far the most sensible (and for all parties easiest)
> approach.
>
>> The solution for our problem seems to have a specific Nagios patch for
>> FreeBSD...
>> Perhaps Nagios committer could do something, i will contact him ...
>>
>
> Maybe. It's entirely possible that it will be easier to migrate to a
> one-thread-per-check solution rather than the current approach. It will
> certainly shave a fair few cycles off the running of checks.
>
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