From owner-cvs-src Mon Feb 24 0:28:20 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7673637B401; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB5243FAF; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1O8SFlI030347; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:28:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Scott Long , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:24:27 PST." <20030224082427.GL27224@elvis.mu.org> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:28:15 +0100 Message-ID: <30346.1046075295@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030224082427.GL27224@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >> It børks a diskless machine, I posted the details to current@ some days ago. > >No, I realized relatively quickly what had gone wrong once someone >posted a backtrace, I think it was scott. > >I also explained to scott why the ordering is needed. Right now he >has rebroken the mp safety of filedescs so instead of a problem that's >quite easy to find we have broken code that's racey and can lead to >crashes. Well, if given the choice between something which works most of the time on all the machines, and something which breaks some of the machines totally all of the time, I prefer the former until the true fix can be found. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message