Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:47:39 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch to cleanup inflight desciptor handling. Message-ID: <20001214154739.A19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200012142345.QAA16165@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:45:27PM %2B0000 References: <20001214233914.L92196@hand.dotat.at> <200012142345.QAA16165@usr08.primenet.com>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> [001214 15:45] wrote:
> > >This still leaves the possibility of a circular reference being
> > >passed while being passed until the process exits, but I don't
> > >think you need to care about that.
> >
> > That's the whole point of this conversation!
>
> I don't think you need to care about it. There are valid reasons
> for doing the passing, and a core dump of one process in a pair
> involved in a pass could leave the thing in limbo. But it is
> resolved on process exit.
>
> I don't think you need to be overly concerned about the thing
> being in limbo, since if both processes exit, it's cleaned up.
No it's not:
Ok, the problem is you have 3 af_unix pairs all open between 2
processes
process B sends 3 over 2 to A
process B sends 2 over 3 to A
process B send 2 and 3 over 1 to A
process B closes 1 2 and 3
A then closes 3 2 and then 1
closing 3 and 2 doesn't cause the socketbuffer to be flushed because
they are still self referencing.
closing 1 causes the socketbuffer to be flushed,
on flushing it comes across 2 and drops a reference but doesn't flush,
it then hits 3 and drops a reference but doesn't flush.
since 3 references 2 and 2 references 3 and nothing else references
2 or 3, we just leaked 2 and 3.
--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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