Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Alexander@Leidinger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? Message-ID: <20030215235650.6b140807.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030210033714.O1731-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030209170616.2e4e3635.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030210033714.O1731-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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--=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lately Bruce Evans wrote: > This change makes such opens bogusly time out after 1 second (unless > there is already a writer). > > There seems to be a race in fifo_open(): opens for read don't > terminate the wait if the reader goes away before the opener looks. > It is not clear if sendmail is affected by this race or one of its > own. > > Untested fix for this and rev.1.79, and for a similar race in blocking > opens of named pipes for reading: fixes issues with apsfilter manual duplexing for me. could somebody please commit this patch? cheers simon -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/#donate \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+TsW2r5S+dk6z85oRAkyqAKDqpIHP4ncKBc3cbmi61KldEZM48gCgrbn7 jnKthil7Sd2cc3Tkn6zWi5I= =h/SK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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