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<DIV><SPAN class=107310315-09042006><FONT size=2>There is a obvious and severe
bug in spread 4.0 rc2, which may cause clients hard to connect to
server.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=107310315-09042006><FONT size=2>The bug is in file sp.c at line
274.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107310315-09042006><FONT size=2>The old source
is:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> sel_time.tv_sec = wait_time.usec;<BR><SPAN
class=107310315-09042006>The right code should be:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=107310315-09042006> sel_time.tv_usec =
wait_time.usec;<BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=107310315-09042006>The bug cause the timeout value
of select() function invalid, so the select() return immediately with out wait.
So the client may miss the message returned by server and cause the
SP_connect_timeout() return CONNECTION_CLOSED.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=107310315-09042006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=107310315-09042006>The code was downloaded with
url <A
href="http://www.spread.org/download/spread-src-4.0.0.rc2.tar.gz">http://www.spread.org/download/spread-src-4.0.0.rc2.tar.gz</A> yesterday.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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