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List:       ntop-dev
Subject:    RE: [Ntop-dev] Re: openbsd
From:       "Burton M. Strauss III" <Burton () ntopsupport ! com>
Date:       2004-04-17 20:05:07
Message-ID: JIEPJGFPFMFIGBNCPKGGGEINFHAA.Burton () ntopsupport ! com
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Julian:

There are then, two separate issues here.

1. Zombies -- somehow related to fork() calls.  You need to figure out what
has to be done (OpenBSD unique) to have them properly terminate.  In other
OSes, when a fork()ed child does the exit call, it's reaped, so we don't
have to do any coding.


2. pcap nonblocking -- sure sounds like OpenBSD has the same userland
threads that FreeBSD has.  The ONLY answer is to use a new enough libpcap so
that it has the set_pcap_nonblocking() call.  If you read the last couple of
messages in the FreeBSD thread, there's a pretty decent sumation of what's
going on.

If it were just up to me, I would copy the line from configureextra/freebsd
to force the option on, and I might even add and #else #error to the code in
ntop.h.



-----Burton


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