Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:51:50 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? Message-ID: <20030310004846.H15648-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <10401.1047207630@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20030309114011.5c4fd699.Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leiding > er writes: > >On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100 > >"Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > >ping phk > > I'm sort of expecting Bruce to commit his own patch ? I'm sort of expecting Poul-Henning to report whether it fixes the sendmail problem :-). Also, since I don't normally run -current, changes to it are hard to test properly. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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