Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> Problem is that idprio isn't safe. I used to idprio the rc5client, but
> within a day or do the machine would lock up. Rc5client would get a
> lock on the root of the filesystem at idprio, and if there was another
> process running at 100% CPU, rc5client would never get a chance to
> unlock, causing all the other processes on the system to hang.
>
> See PR kern/5641.
Hmmm. Can you say "inversion proof semaphore?" Bad news, huh?
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