[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBAS-3780) Deploying empty file to farm directory causes ScannerThread to hang

Deploying empty file to farm directory causes ScannerThread to hang ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-3780 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3780 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Clustering Environment: Fedora Core 5 JBoss [Zion] 4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339) Reporter: Brian Stansberry Assigned To: Jerry Gauthier Fix For: JBossAS-5.0.0.Beta2, JBossAS-4.0.5.SP1 As reported by Dan Delany in JBCLUSTER-151: Creating a 0 byte long file in the farm directory causes the server to stop scanning the farm directory. To reproduce: Deploy a fresh instance of JBoss. Do not deploy any applications to it. Configure it to be part of a cluster. Launch JBoss. After it is running, touch farm/foo.xml The log will show 07:45:34,555 INFO [JkMain] Jk running ID=0 time=0/33 config=null 07:45:34,562 INFO [Server] JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)] Started in 42s:633ms 07:45:48,664 INFO [ClusterFileTransfer] Start push of file foo.xml to cluster.