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20030915: pqutil race condition

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  • Subject: 20030915: pqutil race condition
  • Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:35:23 -0600
Arthur,

>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Penn State University
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20030915: pqutil race condition 

The above message contained the following:

> > What version of the LDM are you running?
> 
> ldm 6.0.14
> 
> > What happens if you change the
> > command to
> >
> >     pqutil -r -vl- -w /usr/local/ldm/pq/ldm.pq
> 
> I tried the above command manually and it seems to work fine with
> negligible cpu.  In my earlier case, I was sending the output to a log
> file using the command:
> 
> pqutil -r -v -w /usr/local/ldm/pq/ldm.pq >& /data/ldm/log/watch.log &
> 
> It seems that maybe it has something to do with the redirect...???

Apparently so -- although the reason escapes me at the moment.

> BTW, I tried "pqutil -r -v -l junk.log -w /usr/local/ldm/pq/ldm.pq" but I
> don't seem to get a junk.log file.  Any ideas on that?

Not yet.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson