Bug 316345 – net-proxy/tsocks-1.8_beta5-r? problem proxifying apps that use poll (Debian Bug#576301)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Claer 2010-04-20 11:55:46 UTC]

As explained in the Debian bug report, tsocks is unable to "socksify" applications that use poll(). Applying the patch provided in the debian bug report corrected the problem for me. (at least for subversion program)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge tsocks
2. have a subversion repository behind a server that is accessible by ssh
3. tsocks svn up

Actual Results:  
The subversion checkout fail

Expected Results:  
The subversion checkout succeed

In order to test the patch provided by the debian reporter, I issued these commands :
# cd /usr/portage/net-proxy/tsocks
# cp tsocks-1.8_beta5-r5.ebuild tsocks-1.8_beta5-r6.ebuild
# cat < files/ tsocks-1.8_beta5-poll.patch
...
# diff -u tsocks-1.8_beta5-r5.ebuild tsocks-1.8_beta5-r6.ebuild
--- tsocks-1.8_beta5-r5.ebuild  2010-04-17 19:06:39.000000000 +0200
+++ tsocks-1.8_beta5-r6.ebuild  2010-04-20 13:36:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 src_prepare() {
        epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-gentoo-r3.patch"
        epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-bsd.patch"
+       epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-poll.patch"
        use tordns && epatch "../${PN}-${PV/_beta/b}-tordns1-gentoo-r1.patch"
        eautoreconf
 }

[Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) 2010-04-21 07:13:09 UTC]

Thanks for submitting this fix, assigning to maintainers

[Comment 2 Claer 2010-07-19 14:36:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for submitting this fix, assigning to maintainers
> 

Any news from maintainers ?

[Comment 3 Claer 2012-04-16 15:11:03 UTC]

The problem is still here, 2 years after report and patch provided :-(

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2015-01-07 14:12:32 UTC]

Still the same with current -r6?

[Comment 5 Claer 2015-01-07 16:24:49 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #4)
> Still the same with current -r6?

Hello,

Sorry I don't use gentoo anymore as my main workstation. Therefore I cannot confirm the resolution.

Regards,

Claer

[Comment 6 Andrew Savchenko 2015-01-09 17:07:27 UTC]

Fixed in tsocks-1.8_beta5-r7.

Patch taken from Debian bug 576301, message 15 (the latest version in that thread).