Netserver remove /dev/null in some cases, breaking many things #80
Description
This bug is hard to reproduce, as the condition that lead to
Netserver deleting /dev/null are quite mysterious. I was getting my
/dev/null removed over the years at very rare occurences, until
I managed to track it down to Netserver.
The issue is not present in the tarball for version 2.7.0. It
was introduced in commit :
5380b1f
In particular, this line :
+ FileName = NETPERF_NULL;
I already reported this bug in Debian :
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068490
A quick look at the source code show that the code is wrong in
very obvious way. The fix is quite simple and obvious, and I provide
a patch (included below).
Note that to compile Netperf in amodern distro, other things
need to be fixed :-( You may look at patches for Netperf in Debian
as a start...
Thanks in advance !
Jean