Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:49:51 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c Message-ID: <20080427174951.GJ82555@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <200804271550.m3RFo0R6071940@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200804271550.m3RFo0R6071940@repoman.freebsd.org>
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Robert Watson wrote this message on Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 15:50 +0000:
> Note that the current fix isn't perfect, but better than
> panicking: normally we guarantee that simultaneous invocations
> of a system call to write on a stream socket won't be
> interlaced, which is ensured by use of the socket buffer sleep
> lock. This is guaranteed for the sendfile headers, but not
> trailers. In practice, this is likely not a problem, but
> should be fixed.
Should this be mentioned in the BUGS section of the sendfile(2)
man page? or do you plan on fixing this in the near future?
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