Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:00:30 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? Message-ID: <10401.1047207630@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:40:11 %2B0100." <20030309114011.5c4fd699.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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