Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#3971 closed defect (fixed)

Sysklogd sed should use int, not int*

Reported by: Bryan Kadzban Owned by: lfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.10
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

Sysklogd build instructions (in chapter 6) replace "union wait" with "int*" for the type of the "status" variable.

But then two lines below, the code does:

wait3(&status, WNOHANG, (struct rusage *) NULL)

which ends up passing the wait3 call an int**. I don't think it matters a ton, because the value stored in status is never looked at, but it's still weird. I think the sed should be:

sed -i 's/union wait/int/' syslogd.c

instead of:

sed -i 's/union wait/int*/' syslogd.c

Change History (2)

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 8 years ago

Looking at the code, it's hard to see how the change makes a difference, but you are right. It is technically incorrect. I'll fix it in my next commit.

comment:2 by bdubbs@…, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed at revision 11109.

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