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. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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