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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-09-02 22:52:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-09-02 22:52:45 +0200 |
| commit | 3af2d27eb39102aebba4d79a663a4e024fd9700d (patch) | |
| tree | 8358784079253a25aaf1951ae55405c27e8f501a /config-daemon.ac | |
| parent | bf2a56f8ecd889817f9e3e0040ad1b48293547ba (diff) | |
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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'.
Diffstat (limited to 'config-daemon.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | config-daemon.ac | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-05/msg00036.html> + 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. |