Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:32:32 +0100 From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet tunnel device Message-ID: <20020216193232.B57907@laptop.6bone.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C6DD38B.BF38EC80@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:35:39PM -0800 References: <20020211032336.A2135@kashmir.etowns.net> <20020211170131.A79104@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020212074327.A3466@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020213111358.A3235@kashmir.etowns.net> <20020213111937.A10146@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C6B0BFD.F27F040F@mindspring.com> <20020216004146.A57907@laptop.6bone.nl> <3C6DD38B.BF38EC80@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:35:39PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Maybe it's losing an open instance in the resource > > > track on close? That seems the most likely culprit... > > > > Do you mean in the linux emu case? > > If so, please see my message stating that I also used a linux emu program > > to test this. > > If not, can you please be a bit more detailed? > > Yes. > > I saw your message. It wasn't clear to me that you were > simply exiting in the test, instead of actually closing > the descriptor. I suspect that vmware just exits, and > expects a resource tracking close on exit to free the > reference count. If the Linux ABI code has not been > updated with all the necessary hand waving (old code was > OK, new code is broke ::= that's what's happening), then > that could easily cause the problem, whereas a test case > that does all the right manual shutdown would not have a > problem. Hi Terry, I did do an explicit close() in my test. However, using ktrace I also see a explicit close from vmware. That one doesn't reach the tap device however. So we are back to the original question, where does the close gets lost. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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