Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:15:32 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: named pipes memory leak? Message-ID: <20031111211120.R678@korben.in.tern> In-Reply-To: <200311112009.hABK94eF070133@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200311112009.hABK94eF070133@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Don Lewis wrote: > Now that I've had some time to think about it, if you reuse the same > fifo, you'll run into the same problem that caused me to abandon my > previous fifo_inactive() version of the cleanup code, which is stale > data being left in the fifo after both ends have been closed. You may > be stuck with plan B below ... > > > As a workaround could you create a little mdfs to hold the fifo? We could get away with it by just using symlinks instead of null mounts, so, with your patch, it isn't a real problem for us anymore. Thanks again. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/
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