Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:42:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wcarchive user limit Message-ID: <199803272042.MAA07670@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:58:04 EST." <199803271958.OAA02674@rstcorp.com>
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>Got this message when logging in: > >--- >Logged in to ftp.freebsd.org. >Welcome to wcarchive - home ftp site for Walnut Creek CDROM. >There are currently 3001 users out of 3000 possible. >--- > >Hmm..off-by-one error? or a race condition? Race condition - a context switch occured at just the wrong time and this allowed an extra user in when it shouldn't have. I could add locking around the check/increment of the user count, but why bother? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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