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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:26:41 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Bob_Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
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Subject: Re: weird application breakage in 2.5.2-pre5
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On Thu, Jan 03 2002, Bob_Tracy wrote:
> The application is elm2.4.ME+.82 with PGP 6.5.8.  Works fine under
> kernel version 2.4.17.  Under 2.5.2-pre5, when I try to encrypt+sign
> a message to a particular recipient for which I have two matching keys
> on my pgp keyring, no matching pgp key is found.  The *only* difference
> between "works" and "doesn't" is the kernel version.
> 
> Cranked up the debug level on elm in an attempt to see what's happening,
> and at level 41, I notice that the parent (elm) isn't reading anything
> from the child (pgp -kv recipient_address).  No error indication of any
> kind, so fork(), pipe(), execl(), fdopen(), and fgets() all seem to be
> happy.
> 
> libc version is 2.2.3.
> 
> Possible side-effect of bio changes?

very unlikely I would say, maybe it's an odd scheduler interaction?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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