On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:36 +0100, Alain Knaff wrote:

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Thanks a lot!

Tony

I just tried this, both with an udp-sender running on the host system, and in the embedded system. In both cases, it worked as expected. In order to check what happens if it can't restore the console to a working state, I also tried, in both cases (embedded and server), to kill -9 udp-sender while it was waiting for the start signal. It did even work in that case (although the user's input was not echo'ed by the tty in that case, the shell still got it all right).

Here are the scripts I used for testing:

On server:

#!/bin/sh

udp-sender -f /bin/ls echo Shell read read a echo Got $a

In the embedded system (installed as a post script):

#!/bin/sh

read a echo Got $a

On a third machine, I had an udp-receiver running for the test.

In all 4 cases, it worked (embedded/success, embedded/kill-9, server/success, server/kill-9)

Could you supply details of your script and environment where it fails?

Thanks,

Alain

Hi Alain,

thanks a lot for your time and answer; this is highly appreciated.

The first thing that catch my attention is that i use a pipe instead of the -f switch.

Here is the relevant portion of my script :

case ${yes_or_no} in

Y|y|yes|Yes|YES) start_srv alive=$( expr $alive + $dead ) echo echo echo for host in ${ghost_host[*]}; do echo "Starting udp-receiver on host $host." sleep 1 prep_host $host done echo echo sleep 5 echo "All hosts ready, starting udp-sender on $SHORT_HOST." sleep 5 echo echo cd ${IMG_DIR}

/usr/local/sbin/udp-sender --nokbd --min-clients $alive --interface \ eth0 --pipe "tar cfp - ./"

sleep 15 clear echo echo echo "Transfer finished," echo echo " ***YOU SHOULD WAIT UNTIL" echo "ALL CLIENT(S) HAVE COMPLETED THERE POST-CONFIG***." echo echo "Press return when done." echo

### THIS IS WHERE READ FAIL! read junk ### echo "Returning to main menu." unset host2ghost host_count sleep 5 ;;

Here is the relevant portion of an strace debug output :

write(1, "Transfer finished,\n", 19) = 19 write(1, "\n", 1) = 1 write(1, " ***YOU SHOULD WAIT UN"..., 36) = 36 write(1, "ALL CLIENT(S) HAVE COMPLETED THE"..., 51) = 51 write(1, "\n", 1) = 1 write(1, "Press return when done.\n", 24) = 24 write(1, "\n", 1) = 1 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 read(0, 0x80e0a60, 128) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3

does'nt seem to tell that much...

Once again, thanks a lot!!!

Tony