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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:35:53 -0800
From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: rfork problem
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, David Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote:
> > 
> >   David,
> > 
> > Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and 
> > then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed 
> > and would keep "waiting" till system reboot.

Fixed in RELENG_4 in:

	src/sys/sys/unistd.h,v 1.22.2.3
	src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c,v 1.72.2.16