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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-07-05T20·21+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-07-07T11·21+0200
commit212e96f39c5120ef33b363647a58ebfd61fb3f5e (patch)
tree423cee941b5a4efcd5ffad25ea60e3b6566159a8
parentb584a42e3db8302095e786b4a12894d073fd75cf (diff)
Leave `HAVE_HUP_NOTIFICATION' undefined on GNU/Hurd.
-rw-r--r--src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc b/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
index 6b5dd7e5aaba..a6f29b7c9795 100644
--- a/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
+++ b/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
@@ -25,8 +25,13 @@ using namespace nix;
    that lack it, we only notice the disconnection the next time we try
    to write to the client.  So if you have a builder that never
    generates output on stdout/stderr, the daemon will never notice
-   that the client has disconnected until the builder terminates. */
-#ifdef O_ASYNC
+   that the client has disconnected until the builder terminates.
+
+   GNU/Hurd does have O_ASYNC, but its Unix-domain socket translator
+   (pflocal) does not implement F_SETOWN.  See
+   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00021.html> for
+   details.*/
+#if defined O_ASYNC && !defined __GNU__
 #define HAVE_HUP_NOTIFICATION
 #ifndef SIGPOLL
 #define SIGPOLL SIGIO