Nagios 4 on Solaris 10

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 02/07/2013 11:08 AM, Ton Voon wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> We've managed to fix this issue with the worker threads. It is due to EPOLL not being available on Solaris, so we switch to using SELECT instead. Patch is below (nagios_solaris_uses_select.patch), though it should be detected via configure instead.
> 

It can be detected by the compiler. Since epoll() is linux-specific, no other
system will have it. Both poll() and select() are in Posix.1-2001, but select()
is also in the System V spec, so that would be the safest fallthrough.

However, epoll() already shouldn't be used on solaris, due to the ifdef thingie
at the top of lib/iobroker.c, so perhaps it's just the poll() variant of the
i/o broker that's borked.


> We apply various patches to Solaris builds only, some of which look like you've already fixed. The patches we apply are:
>    * Adding include/sunos.h and base/sunos.h for missing vasprintf(), asprintf()

These should come from lib/snprintf.h. It seems I've just left it more or
less incomplete.

>    * nagios_solaris_rlimit.patch - looks like this is already applied by Andreas

Yup.

>    * nagios_solaris_compile_errors_for_comments_h.patch - this is probably incorrectly done but mimics Nagios 3
> 

I'll replace it with

typedef struct nagios_comment {
	....
} nagios_comment;
#define comment nagios_comment

and do the same for all other types we define in Nagios, while
recommending that people use the "nagios_*" form of the name, as
that's pretty much guaranteed to be "ours" for eternity.

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