From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 25 12: 0:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1251137B407 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:00:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA64604; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B87F456.D3F9C03E@elischer.org> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:54:14 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Silbersack Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible race in i386/i386/pmap.c:pmap_copy() References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ julian@elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message