repeated TEXT commands can fail

[Kees Cook]

Binary package hint: usplash

There appears to be some race condition where usplash may not actually display all the lines of TEXT commands sent to it. Attached is script used to reproduce the problem, as well as a screenshot of what it looks like when it fails (not the missing lines).

[Kees Cook (kees)]

screenshot

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package usplash - 0.5.16

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usplash (0.5.16) hardy; urgency=low

  * libusplash.c: INPUTCHAR did not sleep correctly due to animation
    signals (LP: #194017).
  * libusplash.c: get_timeout_char() was not re-enabling signals.
  * usplash.c, usplash_write.c: removed command data-loss race introduced by
    needless re-opening of input fifo (LP: #200299).
  * usplash.c: "TIMEOUT 0" was causing 100% CPU in select with timeout of 0.

 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:16:06 -0700