PERFORCE change 100088 for review

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 26 23:15:21 UTC 2006


On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Monday 26 June 2006 16:51, Kip Macy wrote:
>> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=100088
>>
>> Change 100088 by kmacy at kmacy_storage:sun4v_work_sleepq on 2006/06/26
> 20:50:54
>>
>> 	allow turnstiles to handle sleeping for us
>
> I thought this wasn't safe as some places wanted to sleep while holding the 
> filedesc lock.  Maybe in select?

The only case I explicitly know of where a sleep might be attempted in 
select() is a bug in MAC.  However, I could remember, last time Kip and I 
chatted, if there were other places or not.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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