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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:15:16 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 100088 for review
Message-ID:  <20060627001445.P79454@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606261759.23136.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200606262051.k5QKp8b3022216@repoman.freebsd.org> <200606261759.23136.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Monday 26 June 2006 16:51, Kip Macy wrote:
>> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=100088
>>
>> Change 100088 by kmacy@kmacy_storage:sun4v_work_sleepq on 2006/06/26
> 20:50:54
>>
>> 	allow turnstiles to handle sleeping for us
>
> I thought this wasn't safe as some places wanted to sleep while holding the 
> filedesc lock.  Maybe in select?

The only case I explicitly know of where a sleep might be attempted in 
select() is a bug in MAC.  However, I could remember, last time Kip and I 
chatted, if there were other places or not.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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