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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Subject: Re: kern/175674: sem_open() should use O_EXLOCK with open() instead
 of a separate flock() call
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The following reply was made to PR kern/175674; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To: bug-followup <bug-followup@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/175674: sem_open() should use O_EXLOCK with open() instead
 of a separate flock() call
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:30:28 -0500

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 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
 Date: 3 February 2013 20:52
 Subject: Re: kern/175674: sem_open() should use O_EXLOCK with open()
 instead of a separate flock() call
 To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
 Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
 
 
 On 3 February 2013 16:00, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/175674; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >  > The best way to fix this is in kern_openat() in the kernel but this
 >  > might cause compatibility issues.
 >
 >  Not sure if there would be serious compatibility problems if open() would
 >  automatically restart instead of returning EINTR.  It definitely seems a rather
 >  intrusive change though.
 
 I can not see major application breakage should open(3) be changed.
 
 That said,  I am confused by jilles' comment:
 http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/open.html
 open(3) is permitted to return EINTR.
 
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 Eitan Adler
 
 
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 Eitan Adler