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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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"Alan L. Cox" wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:15:09PM -0500, Alan L. Cox wrote:
> > > I believe that the attached commit addresses the "panic: sleeping thread
> > > owns a mutex" problem reported by Kris and another related problem
> > > reported a few days earlier.  The earlier problem report included the
> > > following stack trace:
> >
> > Great, thanks!
> 
> Be warned ... I believe that there is still another way for this error
> to come up in the pipe code.  Let me know if it reoccurs.

FWIW: Me too.  I'd look at it more, but it'd pollute my "/tmp" with
FreeBSD code too similar to the code that I'm currently interested
in fixing.  8-).


> In general, I would encourage people to start filing problem reports for
> these sorts of things.

Always file a PR, if you can, and if the mail server lets you.
The amount of work it takes to verify something as a duplicate
is nothing, when compared to trying to regain the goodwill of
someone shot in the foot by something that was known about but
not reported.

-- Terry