Re: crash in tty code in 6.1.. fixed since?

From: Attilio Rao <attilio_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:25:44 +0200
Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> 
> If TTY was not Giant locked, you would have had an error there if another 
> mutex was locked, and the problem would have been solved years ago :-)

Not sure what you mean, but the first evidence is that you would have 
explicitly drop/pickup the mutex so that you would have handled the race 
  not trasparently as Giant does.
Moreover, it seems that tty should be partially locked with a sleeping 
primitive (sx probabilly).

Attilio
Received on Fri Jul 13 2007 - 06:26:26 UTC

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