Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:12:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: mbr@freebsd.org Subject: RE: thread-unsafe syslog code in libc? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040815160330.30898Q-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20040815125806.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, John Polstra wrote: > The above is only to handle an unusual error case. > > There is some thread-unsafeness here, but it doesn't look like it would > matter under normal conditions. So maybe we're dealing with a user space race where multiple threads attempt to do a first syslog in parallel? Martin -- do we know exactly what that application does threadwise to generate this problem? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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