[radvd-devel-l] radvd crash with multiple interfaces when 1 interface comes back up

[Reuben Hawkins]

I'll try over the next week or so to submit timerless code which honours the
delay...

Thanks,
Reuben

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Reuben Hawkins wrote:
>
>> This is happening in the latest from CVS in the timer code?  Can you
>> reproduce this crash in the code I submitted which removes the
>> timers?  It seems like the timers are the source of half the problems
>> submitted to the mailing list.  I stand by removing the
>> timers.  Building a poll/select based solution will dramatically simplify
>> the code and debugging.  Please let me know what
>> guidelines I should follow to get my code integrated into the next
>> version...
>>
>
> Yes, this happens with the latest CVS.  I have not tried reproducing with
> polling based mechanism, but I don't think it would exist there.
>
> I agree that timers are causing problems (and likely continue to do so),
> and we would be better off without them, or by implementing better locking
> when using them (anyone interested in looking at this?).
>
> In order for select/poll-based mechanism to be considered, it would need to
> support all MUSTs from the spec and preferably SHOULDs also. I recall there
> was some discussion about this late last year, e.g. relating to random delay
> feature.
>
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