5.2-RELEASE TODO

[Tim Robbins]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:00:15AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:

>    |------------+-----------+----------------+---------------|              |
>    |            |           |                | Kris Kennaway |              |
>    |            |           |                | reports       |              |
>    |            |           |                | deadlocks     |              |
>    |            |           |                | involving the |              |
>    |            |           |                | use of nullfs |              |
>    |            |           |                | in the bento  |              |
>    |            |           |                | environment:  |              |
>    |            |           |                | buildworld    |              |
>    |            |           |                | -j4 with src  |              |
>    |            |           |                | and obj       |              |
>    |            |           |                | mounted via   |              |
>    |            |           |                | nullfs; the   |              |
>    | nullfs     | --        | --             | gcc processes |              |
>    | deadlocks  |           |                | eventually    |              |
>    |            |           |                | deadlocked in |              |
>    |            |           |                | the ufs       |              |
>    |            |           |                | state. DDB    |              |
>    |            |           |                | traceback     |              |
>    |            |           |                | showed two    |              |
>    |            |           |                | different     |              |
>    |            |           |                | codepaths.    |              |
>    |            |           |                | I've just     |              |
>    |            |           |                | repeated      |              |
>    |            |           |                | this, so the  |              |
>    |            |           |                | bug still     |              |
>    |            |           |                | exists.       |              |
>    |------------+-----------+----------------+---------------|              |

This has already been fixed.


Tim