From 3af2d27eb39102aebba4d79a663a4e024fd9700d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:52:45 +0200 Subject: daemon: Do not use 'vfork'. This fixes random EBADF errors in the daemon on ancient Linux kernels such as version 2.6.32. * config-daemon.ac: Remove detection of 'vfork'. --- config-daemon.ac | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'config-daemon.ac') diff --git a/config-daemon.ac b/config-daemon.ac index a13525a7f5..072fb84b46 100644 --- a/config-daemon.ac +++ b/config-daemon.ac @@ -78,10 +78,13 @@ if test "x$guix_build_daemon" = "xyes"; then dnl lutimes and lchown: used when canonicalizing store items. dnl posix_fallocate: used when extracting archives. dnl vfork: to speed up spawning of helper programs. + dnl `--> now disabled because of unpredictable behavior: + dnl see + dnl and Nix commit f794465c (Nov. 2012). dnl sched_setaffinity: to improve RPC locality. dnl statvfs: to detect disk-full conditions. dnl strsignal: for error reporting. - AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes lchown posix_fallocate vfork sched_setaffinity \ + AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes lchown posix_fallocate sched_setaffinity \ statvfs nanosleep strsignal]) dnl Check whether the store optimiser can optimise symlinks. -- cgit v1.2.3