Weird error with Nagios 2.0b4 on RHEL 4

[Andreas Ericsson]

Fred wrote:
> 
> --- Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fred wrote:
>>
>>
>>fgets() is supposed to return whatever it can read if there's no newline 
>>within the limits of the second arg.
> 
> 
> I can promise that if I do large writes to a FIFO:
> 
> @array = ... lots of fifo lines
> print FIFO @array;
> 
> that perl does large block writes and the fgets() *sometimes* returns
> a short line and the rest of the line gets picked up in the next fgets().


man 3 fgets

Not that it matters though, since nagios doesn't use fgets() from the 
pipe. Only perl is stupid enough to use textbased protocols when binary 
ones are easier (binary protocols are *always* faster).

> Doing sysopen(), $|=1; while (@array) { print FIFO $_ } cleans things
> up.  This causes smaller line writes to be written to the FIFO and seems
> to workaround the problem.
> 

I'm sure it does. Nagios still doesn't fget()'s though.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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