BugBash-2008-08-18
The second BugBash was held August 18th, at 19:30 UTC.
Contents
Theme - Patches
The focus of this meeting continued looking at items that have been submitted to the
Patches tracker
but have not yet been either accepted or rejected.
Feedback from previous BugBash
One pair of outstanding entry were discussed at this session:
- 1737439 2007-06-14
Patch for linkUp/linkDown traps generation - 1759178 2007-07-23
netlink-based link state trap generation (5.2.3-7 - debian)
Patches discussed
This session concentrated on patches relating to the Net-SNMP library.
Library issues
- 1627049 2007-01-03
netsnmp api extension to deal with large file handles- basic patch was applied shortly after submission
- several issues were raised in the tracker discussion, which still need consideration
- 1257347 2005-08-12
Change to connection string size- basic idea looks OK - patch tidying up, plus error checking
- DTS to update and apply
- 724925 2003-04-21
cleanup memory- Needs very careful attention, to avoid introducing crashes - main benefit at shutdown
- 'Still awaiting a volunteer
Patches outstanding
The newer patches and other categories were left for another meeting. The patches concerned are as follows:
Newer patches
The following patches were submitted following the analysis for the inaugural BugBash, and haven't been categorised or discussed
- 2021444 2008-05-08
$sess->gettable didn't support version 2c- applied
- 2012404 2008-05-08
5.4.x on Solaris: Interfaces limited to 10 - 2012402 2008-05-08
Missing VLAN interfaces on solaris 10 - 2003475 2008-05-08
ksm_process_in_msg output disregarded--no securityEngineID - 2003450 2008-05-08
couple KSM LP64 problems- applied
- 2000874 2008-05-08
configure.in transports selection cleanup... - 1997499 2008-05-08
"proc" - check processes that should not be running
Perl
These patches relating to the perl modules were scheduled for discussion, but there wasn't sufficient time to consider them.
- 1960079 2008-05-08
Some VarBinds missing from Perl BULKWALK - 1956193 2008-05-02
Thread-Safe patch for Perl SNMP - 1313830 2005-10-05
Fix Counter64 support in the perl agent- see also 2022948
The three groups of agent-related patches have not yet been discussed, and will need to be considered at a future meeting.
