[OpenSIPS-Users] FIFO very fragile

[Vlad Paiu]

Hello Brett,

A well formed MI command should end with two '\n\n' characters. When you do
     echo -e ":address_dump:my_fifo\n\n"

,your MI command ends with three '\n', because echo adds an extra \n at 
the end, unless you use the -n parameter.

So what happens is that OpenSIPS successfully processes your 
address_dump MI command, and then reads the third \n.
It treats it as an empty MI command, and attempts to block and read the 
second \n signaling the end of the MI command, and there it gets stuck.


Regards,

-- 
Vlad Paiu
OpenSIPS Developer




On 05/09/2011 07:40 PM, Brett Nemeroff wrote:
> Hello List,
> So I've been doing some testing with the mi_fifo and found that it 
> appears to be really fragile. Here's what I've done:
>
> mkfifo /tmp/my_fifo
> cat /tmp/my_fifo&
> echo -e ":address_dump:my_fifo\n\n" > /tmp/opensips_fifo
> *returns*
> 200 OK
>   48 <1.2.3.4,2, 0, 0, NULL, NULL>
> ** cat process ends
> cat /tmp/my_fifo&
> echo -e ":address_dump:my_fifo\n\n" > /tmp/opensips_fifo
> ** nothing
>
> At this point, I can't make the fifo work again until I restart 
> opensips. If I detach from the fifo (kill the cat, so to speak), and 
> reattach it doesn't work. Nothing seems to make it responsive again. 
> At first I though something was horribly broken, but then I removed 
> one of my \n from the fifo command and now it works "as expected". Two 
> new-lines shouldn't break the fifo, right?
>
> Thanks!
> -Brett
>
>
>
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