HEADS UP: UNIX domain socket locking changes merged to CVS HEAD

Randall Stewart rrs at cisco.com
Fri Mar 2 13:02:13 UTC 2007


Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:37:39AM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote:
>> Robert Watson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Randall Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> solved.. of course I still could lock up.. but only using X will tell :-0
>>> In light of slightly ambiguous reports of success, I've committed the patch. 
>>> With any luck this will help with the UNIX domain socket deadlocks, but if 
>>> not, please let me know.
> 
> 
> So far, it seems to be working.  I've been running X for about 3 hours,
> and like others, for me it had, before this patched, usually locked up
> relatively quickly.  
> 
> Many thanks for your quick fix of the problem. 
> 
> 
I have been running close to 20 hours or so and no lockups :-D

Before it would lock up within an hour.. sometimes 20 minutes :-(

Thanks so much for the patch.. and the commit.. See you at
BSD Asia :-D

R

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Randall Stewart
NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc.
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