Fix possibility of infinite loop in init scripts in time for Fedora 12?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Oct 21 15:46:19 UTC 2009


On 10/21/2009 12:54 AM, hidenori.ishii at avasys.jp wrote:
> A colleague of mine submitted a bug report regarding an infinite loop
> triggered when calling `lsb_start_daemon` with the `-p` option[1].  This
> bug has been around since at least Fedora 9 and is still present in the
> beta for Fedora 12.
> 
> Considering the fact that `lsb_start_daemon` is supposed to be called
> from init scripts, this may hang the boot process.  That's pretty bad.
> I know it's a bit late, but seeing that there is a patch, any chance of
> getting this in for Fedora 12?
> 
>  [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485367
> 
> Thanks in advance,

I'll take care of this.

~spot




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