Okay.. I think I have a valid solutions for the tcl exec problem. Can anyone tell me other problems occured with OpenBSD and OpenACS/Aolserver?
Here is the patch for aolserver3_3_1 (which compiles cleanly for OpenBSD without the mods to include/Makefile.global that 3.2 needed)
diff -u aolserver3_3_1/tcl8.3.2/unix/tclUnixPipe.c aolserver3_3_1_patched/tcl8.3.2/unix/tclUnixPipe.c
--- aolserver3_3_1/tcl8.3.2/unix/tclUnixPipe.c Thu Aug 17 17:46:15 2000
+++ aolserver3_3_1_patched/tcl8.3.2/unix/tclUnixPipe.c Mon Apr 9 13:52:39 2001
@@ -949,13 +949,16 @@
* possible, if the channel is in blocking mode. If the channel is
* nonblocking, the read will never block.
*/
-
- bytesRead = read(GetFd(psPtr->inFile), buf, (size_t) toRead);
- if (bytesRead > -1) {
- return bytesRead;
+ while (1) {
+ bytesRead = read(GetFd(psPtr->inFile), buf, (size_t) toRead);
+ if (bytesRead > -1) {
+ return bytesRead;
+ }
+ if ( errno != EINTR ) {
+ *errorCodePtr = errno;
+ return -1;
+ }
}
- *errorCodePtr = errno;
- return -1;
}
^L
/*
