Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:40:11 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? Message-ID: <20030309114011.5c4fd699.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030215235650.6b140807.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> References: <20030209170616.2e4e3635.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030210033714.O1731-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030215235650.6b140807.corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100 "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> wrote: > 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? ping phk Bye, Alexander. -- There's no place like ~ http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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