From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 9 3: 0:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B44D37B404 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 03:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1F443FB1 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 03:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h29B0UNw010402; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:00:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" , bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:40:11 +0100." <20030309114011.5c4fd699.Alexander@Leidinger.net> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:00:30 +0100 Message-ID: <10401.1047207630@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030309114011.5c4fd699.Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leiding er writes: >On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100 >"Simon 'corecode' Schubert" wrote: > >> Lately Bruce Evans wrote: >> >> > This change makes such opens bogusly time out after 1 second (unless >> > there is already a writer). >> > >> > There seems to be a race in fifo_open(): opens for read don't >> > terminate the wait if the reader goes away before the opener looks. >> > It is not clear if sendmail is affected by this race or one of its >> > own. >> > >> > Untested fix for this and rev.1.79, and for a similar race in blocking >> > opens of named pipes for reading: >> >> fixes issues with apsfilter manual duplexing for me. could somebody >> please commit this patch? > >ping phk I'm sort of expecting Bruce to commit his own patch ? -- 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message