hald caught in infinite loop while scanning directory

[Danny Kukawka]

On Monday 24 October 2005 11:16, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I just got an interesting hal bug in Ubuntu:
>
>   https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18293
>
> ----------- snip -----------
> Starting /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal causes an infinite loop, when
> scanning the
> directory
> /usr/share/hal/fdi due to the processing of dot entries (strace shows:
> stat64("/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/./././././././././././././././././././.
>/ [...] ).

hm, this is strange, I can't reproduce this on SUSE and Debian with HAL 0.5.4 
and CVS Head. Did the user tried a new HAL version (many changes since 
0.5.3)?

Danny