Re: [gpsd-dev] WG: gpsmon stop after 16 seconds...

[Eric S. Raymond]

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> But there may be still a bug in the packet parser of gpsd, as i expect, that 
> "badcounter" will be reset with the reception of a good sentence, or, 
> decremented.
> 
> The current behavior seem to accumulate the errors forever, and in my opinion 
> this is a smoking gun. If there is a connection to a device  with some errors 
> from time to time, it will be forced into reconfiguration after several hours 
> or days.
> 
> And the question is still open, why gpsmon is not able to resync, but stops 
> after some time with a device read error.

I don't have a test load that reproduces this behavior, or I'd have fixed it.

Can you bisect to identify when this began to happen?
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>