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Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives |
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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:48:05 -0700 |
Yo Eric!
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:41:47 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> > I still see that PPS is still randomly failing at startup. That
> > was not in 3.9 needs to be fixed in 3.10.
>
> I'll try to reproduce this here. I can now live-test PPS on the
> serial port of the TCX0 eval box.
The GR-601W is where I see the problem.
> > And, probably related, the PPS thread is now usually dropping root
> > permissions before opening /dev/pps0, so kernel PPS is now broken.
> > Sometimes the PPS thread does manage to open /dev/pps0, but when it
> > reads pps0 it later it gets no data and PPS fails.
> >
> > Given the longstanding bug that PPS can only be started when ggpsd
> > starts the solution to all three problems may be just to not drop
> > root on the PPS thread.
>
> Er, is that even possible? Don't all threads associated with a
> process get the permissions of the process, whatever they are?
Dunno, sjust thinking out loud.
RGDS
GARY
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- [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Eric S. Raymond, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Gary E. Miller, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Eric S. Raymond, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives,
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- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Greg Troxel, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Eric S. Raymond, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Gary E. Miller, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Gary E. Miller, 2013/10/16
- Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Eric S. Raymond, 2013/10/17
Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.10 release objectives, Andy Walls, 2013/10/16