: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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:Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
:http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr w...@softweyr.com
Yes, this is a very real problem. I forgot to mention it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
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