Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:40:11 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem? Message-ID: <20030309114011.5c4fd699.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030215235650.6b140807.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> References: <20030209170616.2e4e3635.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030210033714.O1731-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030215235650.6b140807.corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:56:50 +0100
"Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> wrote:
> Lately Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> > This change makes such opens bogusly time out after 1 second (unless
> > there is already a writer).
> >
> > There seems to be a race in fifo_open(): opens for read don't
> > terminate the wait if the reader goes away before the opener looks.
> > It is not clear if sendmail is affected by this race or one of its
> > own.
> >
> > Untested fix for this and rev.1.79, and for a similar race in blocking
> > opens of named pipes for reading:
>
> fixes issues with apsfilter manual duplexing for me. could somebody
> please commit this patch?
ping phk
Bye,
Alexander.
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