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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:37:57 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pthreads bug?
Message-ID:  <20000929103756.I27736@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000929072626.7930A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:28:54AM -0400
References:  <20000929013521.C27736@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000929072626.7930A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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* Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [000929 04:29] wrote:
> 
> I don't think it should be fixed unless we decide to remove the
> automatic locking of file descriptors.  But if you do come up
> with a clean solution, please run it by me.  I have some massive
> changes to the threads library that are currently under review.

Well the hackish idea that I had was to set the thread runnable
but somehow set a flag so that it knows it's the "accept() being
broken by close() wakeup."  The accept()ing thread can then unlock
the file and return EBADF or whatever it's supposed to.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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