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Subject: Re: Attention pf/ipfw users with uid/gid/jail rules (Re: Reminder:
 NET_NEEDS_GIANT, debug.mpsafenet going away in 7.0)
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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Max Laier wrote:
>
> So far I have had 0 (zero) reports of problems since this thread began. 
> Could people using uid/gid/jail rules with ipfw or pf on 7.x *please* 
> try running their firewalls without debug.mpsafenet -- ignore the 
> witness warnings and/or disable witness, and let us know if you 
> experience deadlocks.  We're reaching the very end of the merge cycle 
> for 7.0, and I would really like to remove the Giant crutches (now 
> effectively unused) from the network stack so it's not part of the 
> ABI/API, the code is simplified and cleaned up, etc.
> 

does "problem" include a LOR message, or only a deadlock?
I've seen plenty of the first, but not the second.