Getting hobbit running on FreeBSD

[Scott, Brian]

Hello all,

I've just had a try at installing hobbit on various versions (5.3, 5.4)
of FreeBSD. I was getting segvs whenever hobbitd started. After a little
work with gdb I found that allocating some buffers was based on
hostcount when hostcount was zero. I presume that on some other
platforms a zero sized malloc returns some useful amount of memory but
not on FreeBSD (it claims to return some storage rather than NULL
depending on /etc/malloc.conf but apparently not enough).

I patched hobbitd.c to increase the size (without bothering to look at
the code in any detail) and now it doesn't segv on me.

I hope this helps someone else trying to make it run.

BTW: I also had to change the group of most of the installation to my
web server group after installation. I possibly could have created the
hobbit user in the web group to get arround this but somehow it seems
tacky.

Thanks for the nice software,

Brian


--- hobbit-4.1.1.orig/hobbitd/hobbitd.c Tue Jul 26 00:55:43 2005
+++ hobbit-4.1.1/hobbitd/hobbitd.c      Thu Sep  1 13:18:04 2005
@@ -2122,7 +2122,7 @@
 
                if (lastboardsize == 0) {
                        /* A guesstimate - 8 tests per hosts, 1KB/test
(only 1st line of msg) */
-                       bufsz = hostcount*8*1024; 
+                       bufsz = (hostcount+1)*8*1024; 
                }
                else {
                        /* Add 10% to the last size we used */
@@ -2274,7 +2274,7 @@
 
                if (lastboardsize == 0) {
                        /* A guesstimate - 8 tests per hosts, 2KB/test
(only 1st line of msg) */
-                       bufsz = hostcount*8*2048; 
+                       bufsz = (hostcount+1)*8*2048; 
                }
                else {
                        /* Add 10% to the last size we used */


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