crash in tty code in 6.1.. fixed since?
Attilio Rao
attilio at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 13 08:26:26 UTC 2007
Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>
> If TTY was not Giant locked, you would have had an error there if another
> mutex was locked, and the problem would have been solved years ago :-)
Not sure what you mean, but the first evidence is that you would have
explicitly drop/pickup the mutex so that you would have handled the race
not trasparently as Giant does.
Moreover, it seems that tty should be partially locked with a sleeping
primitive (sx probabilly).
Attilio
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