ports/151725: sysutils/hal: hald fails to start with dbus-1.4

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:33:08 +0200
> From: Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>
> 
> on 05/11/2010 19:24 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> > It looked like the issue was caused by the above write() call after a sufficiently
> > quick child process had already exited.
> 
> The proper patch.
> 
> --- hald-runner/runner.c.orig	2010-11-05 19:26:05.673393765 +0200
> +++ hald-runner/runner.c	2010-11-05 19:26:33.471393058 +0200
> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ run_request_run (run_request *r, DBusCon
>  	}
>  	g_free (program_dir);
> 
> -	if (r->input) {
> +	if (r->input && strlen(r->input) > 0) {
>  		if (write(stdin_v, r->input, strlen(r->input)) != (ssize_t) strlen(r->input))
>  			printf("Warning: Error while writing r->input (%s) to stdin_v.\n", r->input);
>  		close(stdin_v);

Looks like you have it! My system now runs hald with the dbus-1.4.0
without any problems.

Thanks very much, Andriy!
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