Subj : binkd crashes when reloading after file change detection
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jan 20 2022 08:55:16


 On 2022 Jan 20 14:18:08, you wrote to me:

 MV> In an attempt to provoke the crashes I created an empty include file for my
 MV> binkd config file. With the Windows task manager I created an event that
 MV> touched the date/time stamp of this empy file every five minutes. The
 MV> rescan delay for my binkd is set to 60.

i remember you posting about this... it is one of the things that lead to me attempting to reproduce the defect here on my OS/2 setup at that time... now i'm on linux and the defect still exists...

 MV> This was about five years ago. I let it run for a month or so. Binkd
 MV> reloaded its config every 5 minutes and that did not cause a crash.

 MV> So I thought "hmmm this version of binkd seems to have fixed the
 MV> problem". But alas when I made changes in the actual config files the
 MV> crashes reappeared. So it looks like it is not just the reloading the
 MV> config files as such, some of the config files must actually change to
 MV> make it crash.

 MV> I gave up and stopped using the -C option.

i've continued to use it but have always stopped my binkd manually before making and saving edits... at this time, though, i wanted to test for this defect specifically because i had been talking with some other operators about binkd and had noted that it can automatically reload its configs when changes have been made to them... since i had not been seeing crashes every day when my fidonet.binkd.txt nodelist is updated, i wondered about updating the other config files and if things were working there... as it happens, i triggered the defect and here we are with this current thread about it...

i must say that i find it quite strange that updating the contents of one included file will trigger the defect but updating another included file isn't even noticed at all...

 MV> I did not formally document it at the time, so I am relying om memory.

my memory of your original posting appears to match what you write here :)

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