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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:18:41 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        callum.gibson@db.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipcrm/shmctl failure (fix NOT found)
Message-ID:  <3CBCCD71.43EBBCD1@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020416232427.5104.qmail@merton.aus.deuba.com>

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callum.gibson@db.com wrote:
> tlambert2@mindspring.com writes:
> [ suggested fix ]
> [ snip ]
> }This looks right, to me.
> 
> Sigh. With the fix as in current (decrement the vm_refcnt in the if statement)
> the system panics on boot with a "vmspace already free" message.
> With my version of the fix (only decrement if vm_refcnt) not 1 by calling
> vmspace_free(), the system ran for about 10 minutes and then hung.
> 
> So for the moment I'll just leave it and avoid linux threads (or anything
> using rfork) and shared memory unless anyone else has other ideas. I can't
> afford the time to work out the vm code any further at the moment.

Heh.  That's a Biiiiiiig snip.  I had a huge caveat on the code
doing what it did where it did it, if you'll remember.  8-).

-- Terry

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