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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:24:27 PST."
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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.
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