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authorThierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com>2013-12-21 03:09:24 +0100
committerThierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com>2013-12-21 03:09:24 +0100
commit67cbacd2c1cc61fcc8a4cb8ca2d567bebec7a814 (patch)
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prevent segfaulting b/c of fork vs threads (mga#12041)
the issue is that glib/gtk create threads behind us however threads & fork() don't behave well when mixed...
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/network')
-rw-r--r--lib/network/tools.pm14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/network/tools.pm b/lib/network/tools.pm
index c80c269..c8e0cf6 100644
--- a/lib/network/tools.pm
+++ b/lib/network/tools.pm
@@ -216,8 +216,20 @@ sub get_default_connection {
return $gw_intf, get_interface_status($gw_intf), $net->{resolv}{dnsServer};
}
+#- returns the gateway address
+# advantage over get_default_connection() is that we don't fork,
+# which prevent segfaulting when glib/gtk create threads behind us (mga#12041)
+sub get_gw_address() {
+ my $gateway;
+ foreach (cat_('/proc/net/route')) {
+ $gateway = $1 if /^\S+\s+00000000\s+([0-9A-F]+)/;
+ }
+ # Linux gives it as a hex number in network byte order:
+ $gateway ? join(".", unpack "CCCC", pack "L", hex $gateway) : undef;
+}
+
sub has_network_connection() {
- (undef, undef, my $gw_address) = get_default_connection({});
+ my $gw_address = get_gw_address();
to_bool($gw_address);
}