From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 15 14:57:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC3737B401; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC92D43FBF; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from corecode@corecode.ath.cx) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18kBF7-0007ES-02; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:57:09 +0100 Received: from pride.uni.stoert.net (320050403952-0001@[217.82.55.89]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18kBEt-0OKpM0C; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:55 +0100 Received: from terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (terrorfish.uni.stoert.net [10.150.180.178]) by pride.uni.stoert.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B1712BD64; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1FMuvLg001886; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode@terrorfish.uni.stoert.net) Received: (from corecode@localhost) by terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1FMutl7001885; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: Bruce Evans Cc: Alexander@Leidinger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? Message-Id: <20030215235650.6b140807.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030210033714.O1731-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030209170616.2e4e3635.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030210033714.O1731-100000@gamplex.bde.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r" X-Sender: 320050403952-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? cheers simon -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/#donate \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+TsW2r5S+dk6z85oRAkyqAKDqpIHP4ncKBc3cbmi61KldEZM48gCgrbn7 jnKthil7Sd2cc3Tkn6zWi5I= =h/SK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.XLlp91i,bq7y,r-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message