reasonable inndf patch?

[Uli Zappe]

Hi,

as I've told you I've been plagued by totally irregular and irreproducible  
throttlings of innd by innwatch because inndf wrongly reports 0 bytes of free  
space (on NEXTSTEP 3.3).

Looking at teh source, you can easily see this stems from the fact that inndf  
reports 0 bytes when statfs fails (for whatever reason).

Is it really reasonable to throttle innd because statfs fails (which, at  
least on NEXTSTEP, seems to happen arbitrarily)?

Anyway, I applied the following (still NEXTSTEP specific) patch to inndf.c  
(inn 2.2.0 released); maybe it's reasonable to do it this way in general?


*** inndf.c.orig        Wed Dec  1 16:27:37 1999
--- inndf.c     Wed Dec  1 17:05:53 1999
***************
*** 109,122 ****

  #define KILOBYTES     1024L

  void
  Printspace(char *path, BOOL inode, BOOL needpadding)
  {
        struct STATSTRUC buf;
        STATTYPES value;

        if (STATFUNCT(path, &buf) != 0) {
!               value = 0L;      /* if there's an error - free space is zero */
        } else {
                if (!inode) {
                        /* this is often the same as just buf.f_bavail */
--- 109,129 ----

  #define KILOBYTES     1024L

+ #include <syslog.h>
+ #include <errno.h>
+
  void
  Printspace(char *path, BOOL inode, BOOL needpadding)
  {
        struct STATSTRUC buf;
        STATTYPES value;
+       char errbuf[BUFSIZ];

        if (STATFUNCT(path, &buf) != 0) {
!               sprintf(errbuf,"can't report free space: %s",strerror(errno));
!               openlog("inndf", LOG_PID|LOG_CONS, LOG_LOCAL1);
!               syslog(LOG_ERR, errbuf);
!               exit(-1);
        } else {
                if (!inode) {
                        /* this is often the same as just buf.f_bavail */







                Bye
                        Uli

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