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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:25:44 +0200
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: crash in tty code in 6.1.. fixed since?
Message-ID:  <46973708.2040401@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707131021.59966.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <46970DF7.3000803@elischer.org> <46972B28.1010409@FreeBSD.org> <200707131021.59966.hselasky@c2i.net>

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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





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