Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios Multithreaded Event Loops Patch is Here

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios Multithreaded Event Loops Patch is Here

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Steven D. Morrey wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Sorry it's a bit late at night for those of you who have been waiting
> on it, but I went to the doctors office today and while waiting I
> decided to review the source code again. In the process of reviewing
> the source code I found a race condition, so I had to fix the
> condition and test it again. I've tested this version of the code on
> my laptop under a VM and it appears to work well, but I've not had a
> chance to test it at work since I was out all day and couldn't VPN
> in. Nevertheless I feel confident in releasing this version into the
> wild for testing. It was generated against Nagios 2.7 but I see no
> reason it wouldn't work against any later version, and with minimal
> modifications will probably work just fine on 3x as well. If this
> version works as expected in testing, I will have a 3x version
> available as early next week as my schedule will permit.
>
> Disclaimer: This patch is for testing, debugging and commenting
> purposes only. It may very well cause monkeys, cats, dogs and fish
> to rain out of the sky, your hair may stand on end requiring large
> amounts of gel to set it back down and/or other devastating events
> may occur, if you put it into a production system at this time.
> Though I am deeply sorry if your server melts or some other major
> catastrophe occurs as a result of running this software, either
> directly or indirectly, I assume no responsibility for any such
> events that may or may not occur. This patch should be assumed to be
> radioactive it should be handled with the normal care afforded such
> materials, and should only be handled by trained professionals in a
> laboratory environment
>
> On the other hand I do hope you see a major performance improvement
> :)
>

Glossing over it briefly I have only one problem with it; variable
names should be lower-case.

I'll sed it right myself, so no need to resend.

PS. Nice way of getting attention. I lol'ed :-)

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