From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 01:13:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 3534A16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A081643D39 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pho@holm.cc) Received: (qmail 34627 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2004 09:13:33 -0000 Received: from 0x50a43f97.hknxx1.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk (HELO peter.osted.lan) (80.164.63.151) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 09:13:33 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 80.164.63.151 Received: from peter.osted.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peter.osted.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i239DWH2063778 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:13:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pho@peter.osted.lan) Received: (from pho@localhost) by peter.osted.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i239DWsA063777 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:13:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pho) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:13:32 +0100 From: Peter Holm To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040303091332.GA63435@peter.osted.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Loop in userland_sysctl() X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:13:35 -0000 I'm able to provoke a loop in kern/kern_sysctl.c: 1316 do { 1317 req2 = req; 1318 error = sysctl_root(0, name, namelen, &req2); 1319 } while (error == EAGAIN); Is the "do while" realy required here? Details @ http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/cons44.html -- Peter Holm