Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:00:00 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: fenyo@email.enst.fr Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Subject: Re: fd locking problem with libc_r ? Message-ID: <199704242200.IAA01941@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199704222308.BAA20563@nikopol.enst.fr> from Alex Fenyo at "Apr 23, 97 01:08:06 am"
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[Sorry for the delay, it's been one of those weeks!]
Alex Fenyo wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I encountered a possibly bug in libc_r.
>
> Suppose you have 2 threads and a file descriptor, for instance a socket.
>
> Suppose too that nothing is to be read on the fd (the daemon on
> the other side didn't feed the socket), but we can write on it (the
> daemon on the other side reads on it).
>
> The first thread performs a call to read() on fd.
>
> LATER, the second thread performs a call to write() on the fd.
>
> The problem is that : the write call in the second thread will always
> be performed after something can be read by the first thread.
>
> It's because in src/lib/libc_r uthread_write.c,
> there is a read-write lock on the fd :
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> if ((ret = _thread_fd_lock(fd, FD_RDWR, NULL,
> __FILE__, __LINE__)) == 0) {
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I wonder why is there such a read-write lock when just a write
> lock would be sufficient (and would solve the problem) ???
> Perhaps it's because a write lock wouldn't be sufficient ???
> (I can't find a reason for that ?)
I think you are right, the read and write locks are independent
and they only exist at all because of the need to do things non-blocking
in user-space.
This will be solved when rfork() can be used to thread a user process.
I'm not sure where John Dyson got to with this... Maybe the vfork()
problems got in the way. 8-(
>
> The problem is the same with writev().
Yep.
>
> Many thanks,
> Alexandre Fenyo
>
>
Regards,
--
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