On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:53:08AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote the words in effect of:
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> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
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> > On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration
> > > of the syscall that locked it?
> >
> > Shouldn't be. That would be a bug I believe. Userland threads should
> > never hold any kernel locks.
>
> That's what I think too but I just thought I'd ask..
> (NFS worries me a bit)
>
If It did, wouldn't that give a panic() with something like:
"panic: mutex held on exit to userland..."
... or something like that?
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