bin/94892: rpc.lockd does not interoperate with Solaris 10 under valgrind

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/94892; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Stephen Hurd <shurd at sasktel.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/94892: rpc.lockd does not interoperate with Solaris 10 under valgrind
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:29:30 -0500

 On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:19:59AM +0000, Stephen Hurd wrote:
 
 > When running a multithreaded program under valgrind which makes
 > heavy use of file locking, valgrind will hang in the lockd state and
 > be unkillable.  This does not seem to be related to bin/80389 as
 > reverting lock_proc.c to 1.17 does not work around the problem.
 > NO_INET6 was set true for the world/kernel build.  This is occuring
 > on an SMP system.
 > 
 >How-To-Repeat:
 
 > Run a debug build of Synchronet (http://www.synchro.net/) under
 > valgrind on an NFS exported filesystem from a Solaris 10 box.
 
 Unfortunately rpc.lockd is just broken in about N ways.  It needs a
 lot of work, and someone to do it.  The workaround for now is not to
 use it.
 
 Kris