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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:28:15 +0100
From:      phk@phk.freebsd.dk
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c 
Message-ID:  <30346.1046075295@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:24:27 PST." <20030224082427.GL27224@elvis.mu.org> 

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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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