Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 16:15:59 -0400
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:00:27AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-May-07 15:16:41 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >  http://people.freebsd.org/~csjp/kern_descrip.c.1145074052.diff
> >
> >He hasn't committed it yet because there is some evidence it helps to
> >make an unrelated devfs bug more common in certain test loads.
> 
> If the devfs bug is already present and just difficult to re-produce,
> making it more common and easier to reproduce may assist in its resolution.

Yeah..unfortunately devfs is kind of without an owner at the moment;
there are about half a dozen locking-related bugs outstanding.

Kris



Received on Sun May 07 2006 - 18:16:04 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:55 UTC