Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:54:14 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible race in i386/i386/pmap.c:pmap_copy() Message-ID: <3B87F456.D3F9C03E@elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0108251212460.59525-100000@niwun.pair.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> > AH yes, it's a race for KSe, but we are 1:1 still so it's not a problem (yet :-)
> > ( at least, not the one that's hitteng me at the moment)
>
> Well, don't get frustrated, look on the bright side of things: Even if
> you don't have KSE running in the next few weeks, you will have fixed
> *many* bugs in the kernel. :)
>
> Actually, wouldn't this bug also affect linuxthreads operation? I'm not
> sure if anyone actually uses that, but if they do and were experiencing
> problems, this could explain it.
it coule affect linuxthreads if the program tried to
fork on two different threads at the same time..
but threaded processes rarely fork... (rfork wouldn't have a problem so
new threads should be ok)
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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