Package: inotify-tools
Version: 3.13-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The documentation for inotifytools_next_events( int timeout, int
num_events ) clearly states that the function is non-blocking if 0 is
passed to the 'timeout' argument, but in reality it blocks
indefinitely due to a bug in the code. The following patch corrects
it:
+++ inotifytools.c 2007-11-22 00:54:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
read_timeout.tv_sec = timeout;
read_timeout.tv_usec = 0;
static struct timeval * read_timeout_ptr;
- read_timeout_ptr = ( timeout < 0 ? NULL : &read_timeout );
+ read_timeout_ptr = ( timeout <= 0 ? NULL : &read_timeout );
FD_ZERO(&read_fds);
FD_SET(inotify_fd, &read_fds);
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