Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 3. There seems to be a bug somewhere in the handling of poll().
> If you observe the traceroute process with strace, you'll
> notice that it starts spinning madly after receiving the
> first bunch of packets (those with ttl 1).
>
> 13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> ...
>
> I.e. the poll call returns as if it had timed out, but it
> hasn't.
I've just looked at it, but I'm pretty sure this is a bug in your
code. This should fix it...
--- traceroute.c.orig Wed Dec 6 10:33:48 2000
+++ traceroute.c Wed Dec 6 10:34:06 2000
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
timeout = hop->nextsend;
}
- poll(pfd, m, timeout - now);
+ poll(pfd, m, (timeout - now) * 1000);
/* Receive any pending ICMP errors */
for (n = 0; n < m; n++) {
--
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