Bug#508432: fwknop patched

[Franck Joncourt]

Hi Sébastien,

[...]
>> What about this bug?
> 
> I didn't forget about this bug, your mails are the last ones in my  
> inbox (I'm using an inbox-zero process).
> 
>> Have you been able to reproduce the problem?
> 
> I also tried without success on my machine at work, an x86-64 running  
> an old Mandriva system, with Net::Pcap 0.16, libpcap 0.9.1. This bug  
> seems to be either very tied to the x86 or to a recent version  
> version of the libpcap.

I am using fwknop on amd64 and have never encountered this bug so far.
However on i386, this is 100 % reproductible with your current release.

[...]
> I've answered Martín's concerns in the CPAN-RT ticket:
> 
>> I'd say many Perl users don't know how signals are actually  
>> handled. In fact, more than a few are surprised that signals are  
>> not immediately delivered. IIRC, I added this code to Net::Pcap  
>> because I had a couple of requests (by private mail, not on CPAN- 
>> RT) to modify Net::Pcap so it behaves this way.

Yes, I remember you said that before, and you pointed to a CPAN-RT ticket.

[...]
>> I think maybe that could be nice to have a way to enable/disable the
>> current behavior of the pcap_loop function against interrupts.
> 
> .. I'll add a new function, pcap_perl_settings() to address this  
> particular issue.
> 
>> Having a note about the possible problem would also be good as Martin
>> pointed out.
> 
> I'll add a note about signals, pointing to the pcap_perl_settings()  
> function.
> I'll also have to fix the problems with libpcap 1.0.0

It sounds great to me.

What do other think about it?

Regards,

-- 
Franck Joncourt
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