From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 9 2:40:46 2003 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 F150E37B401; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 02:40:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B95043FA3; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 02:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18ryEL-0007ho-01; Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[217.83.21.141]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18ryE1-0nLjBwC; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:40:13 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h29AeC8Z020302; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:40:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h29AeB4u001092; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:40:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:40:11 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100 "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" 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