Re: [xml] 2.6.22 xmlIO test hanging on AIX

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 08:16:37AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:00:50AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:55:46AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:51:34AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:07:33AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > > > > Once I run the xmlIO test manually, the terminal window hangs after
> > > > > > the above command and the process exits. I don't see this behavior on
> > > > > > Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, IRIX, HP-UX, or Redhat Linux.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > >   What fd number was used to build the buffer ?
> > > >
> > > > n_fd: 0
> > > > fd: 0
> > >
> > >   So apparently AIX dislikes when a child process might close its stdin
> > > descriptor ... maybe a #ifndef AIX is in order and pass -1 instead in that
> > > case...
> >
> > I changed the for loop so n_fd started with 1 and encountered the same
> > hang. I'll try to look into it some more.
>
> The following sample problem, when run on AIX, duplicates the hang:
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   #include <unistd.h>
>
>   void
>   main (void) {
>     char *buffer;
>
>     write (0, buffer, 0);
>   }

  Dohh, that sounds a serious AIX bug ...

> The patch below to xmlIO.c works around this AIX oddity.

  Okidoc, applied,

    thanks !

Daniel

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