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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:17:26 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Cc:        pho@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: close() of an flock'd file is not atomic
Message-ID:  <201206070817.26342.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120607062703.P955@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201203071318.08241.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120606183949.GR85127@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120607062703.P955@besplex.bde.org>

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On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:34:23 pm Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 08:17:54AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>...
> >> The vn_open_vnode() patch is at
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/vn_open_vnode.patch
> >>
> >> I tested it by doing a buildworld -j 32 in a loop while NFS exporting the
> >> /usr/obj tree to another machine that did a continual find | xargs md5 loop
> >> over the /usr/obj tree.  This survived overnight.
> >
> > There is #if 0 left in fhopen() which translates ERESTART into EINTR. Is
> > it needed ?
> >
> > Otherwise it looks fine (but still quite hard to read).
> 
> This translation in the old code causes the following bogus behaviour:
> - some device drivers try to restart open() after revoke().  They return
>    ERESTART for this.  But open never restarts, due to this translation.
>    Never restarting may be correct, but EINTR is a bogus errno unless the
>    open was actually interrupted by a signal, in which case the driver
>    should have returned EINTR.  ENXIO is closest to describing "killed
>    by revoke".
> 
> What case is the translation supposed to fix?

I have no idea. :(  I will take it out of fhopen() however since presumably
fhopen() will not be used on devices (devfs doesn't have VOPs for
filehandles and is not exportable).

-- 
John Baldwin



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