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Date:      Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:01:16 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Tor Egge <tegge@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c 
Message-ID:  <4932.1160805676@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:49:24 GMT." <200610132049.k9DKnObw045731@repoman.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200610132049.k9DKnObw045731@repoman.freebsd.org>, Tor Egge writes:
>tegge       2006-10-13 20:49:24 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/kern             kern_conf.c 
>  Log:
>  Wait for thread count to reach zero in destroy_devl() even when no purge
>  method is defined, to avoid memory being modified after free.

This is quite likely to not happen without intervention.  It might
be a good idea to to deliver a signal to the process, if we can find it.

Better of course would be more purge methods.


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