svn commit: r188727 - in stable/7: sys sys/contrib/pf sys/dev/ath/ath_hal sys/dev/cxgb sys/kern sys/modules/sem sys/sys tools/regression/posixsem usr.bin/procstat

[Kris Kennaway]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 3:18:03 am Bruce Simpson wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>> Author: jhb
>>> Date: Tue Feb 17 19:57:52 2009
>>> New Revision: 188727
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188727
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   MFC: Rework the lifetime management of the kernel implementation of 
> POSIX
>>>   semaphores.  Specifically, semaphores are now represented as new file
>>>   descriptor type that is set to close on exec.  This removes the need for
>>>   all of the manual process reference counting (and fork, exec, and exit
>>>   event handlers) as the normal file descriptor operations handle all of
>>>   that for us nicely.  It is also suggested as one possible implementation
>>>   in the spec and at least one other OS (OS X) uses this approach.
>> FYI:
>> This change *may* fix Python 2.6's 'multiprocessing' module on FreeBSD 
>> 7-STABLE, which is known to have problems there; it depends on POSIX 
>> semaphores to synchronize its IPC between different fork()'s of the 
>> Python interpreter.
>>
>> If anyone else has an interest in ths they may wish to test, if not, I 
>> will try to get around to it eventually.
> 
> When Kris tested it, it made things significantly better.  I'm not sure if it 
> resolved all the issues though.
> 

Some of the self-tests still failed, but there was confusion about 
whether the tests were broken or the kernel.

Kris