[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1891143 ] popen test runs "forever" (workaraound)

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Bugs item #1891143, was opened at 2008-02-11 14:43
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Category: Compilation
Group: Release (specify)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Henry78 (henry78)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: popen test runs "forever" (workaraound)

Initial Comment:
Using nagios-plugins-1.4.11 I run a plain ./configure, which is stuck at "checking for redhat spopen problem".

The part getting stuck is the child_test, which takes 10 seconds to fail. As you see from the Makefile in the dir config_test the caller script (run_test) invokes the child_test 10 000 times.

I attached an starce output of a manual child_test run. If anyone guides my (I'm no big C programmer), I'd be welcome to debug/track down this problem further. 

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>Comment By: Henry78 (henry78)
Date: 2008-02-11 15:04

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Finally had a look into the code of child_test, and of course it take
forever, it's running nslookup from there, and nagios isn't attached to the
internet. So i changed (removed/added comments) the executed command to
'date' (hope the test still does what it should do), now the test runs in a
reasonable time.
However, imho the test should be fixed to run something
internet-independent. So leave the bug open.

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