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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:07:58 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.
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* Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [000609 16:45] wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures (see
> kern/kern_proc.c) are allocated with M_WAITOK after finding them
> fails and then inserted into the uidhash structure a race condition?
> 
> Index: kern_proc.c
> ===================================================================

Yes, I know i forgot to put the created ones back into the list, I was
just a bit flusteres after reading over the code.  I'll have some more
later.

-Alfred


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