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Date:      Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:36:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 timeout.9
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20031001153606.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200310010548.h915mm3c063666@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On 01-Oct-2003 Warner Losh wrote:
> imp         2003/09/30 22:48:48 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     share/man/man9       timeout.9 
>   Log:
>   Document the implications of the callout_stop() returning 0 if the
>   callout has finished or is in progress.  Also document that the
>   locking of the callout code for FreeBSD 5 has eliminated the 'or is in
>   progress' clause as a possibility and that such elimination is an
>   accident of the implementation and shouldn't be relied upon.

It has?  I had to work around the callot_stop() race with msleep()
and endtsleep() to fix panics.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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