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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:30:41 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Subject:   Re: [fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru: Re: thread-safe realpath]
Message-ID:  <20030324223041.A96310@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030324154621.GA82437@numeri.campus.luth.se>; from k@numeri.campus.luth.se on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:46:21PM %2B0100
References:  <20030324212205.A94544@iclub.nsu.ru> <20030324154621.GA82437@numeri.campus.luth.se>

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hi, there!

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:46:21PM +0100, Johan Karlsson wrote:

> > > Constantin Svintsoff has submitted thread-safe realpath() implementation
> > > (implementation that does not use chdir(2)).
> > > The implementation is feature-compatible with FreeBSD implementation, i.e.
> > > if the last component of specified path can't be stat'ed and there is no
> > > trailing slash, realpath succeeds.
> > > 
> > > I fixed a couple of bugs in it and would like to commit it to HEAD
> > > if there will be no objections.
> > > 
> > > Test program is attached. The test simply creates two threads and calls
> > > realpath() in each. If the test is compiled with truepath() #if-0'ed
> > > one of the assertions fail after some time (you may need to increase
> > > number of iterations if you have very fast machine, mine is Athlon 850).
> > > 
> > > Any comments are highly appreciated.
> 
> How does this affect PR 12244?
> I've sent a patch to -audit for review a month ago and I'm about
> to commit that (just doing a final make universe).
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+archive/2003/freebsd-audit/20030209.freebsd-audit

I do not think that this patch is needed if Constantin's version will
be committed. I plan to do this in about a week.

/fjoe


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