Preventing deadlocks on the event queue.

[Lukas Ertl]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> Hello.
>
> So, I think I've found clever way to prevents deadlock caused by
> calling g_waitfor_event() from an event.
>
> My idea is to check if curthread in g_waitfor_event() is a g_event thread.
>
> 	http://garage.freebsd.pl/patches/geom_event_deadlock.patch

Do you really want to make this a separate function?  Since it's just a
one-line comparison, wouldn't a macro suffice?

regards,
le

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