Re: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmiconsole_engine_teardown does not seem to block as advertised

[Levi Pearson]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 08:42 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> Hey Levi,
> 
> Thanks for noticing this.  I'm guessing that the implementation changed
> awhile back and I forgot to change the comments.
> 
> I need to look at the code again the refresh my memory on how best to
> implement this.  Looking at ipmiconsole (the tool, not the lib) it seems
> neither ipmiconsole_ctx_destroy() or ipmiconsole_engine_teardown()
> block.  I actually spin waiting for ipmiconsole_ctx_destroy() to return
> a non-zero value back to me.
> 
> I'll modify the comments for now, and add blocking equivalents into my
> TODO. 
> 
> Is this something that's needed soon on your end?
> 
> Al


Actually, although I thought ipmiconsole_engine_teardown() would
disconnect all the sessions, calling ipmi_ctx_destroy() in a spin-loop
after tearing the engine down never seems to indicate success.  Oh well,
I'll figure something out.

                --Levi