Re: rfork problem

2004-01-26 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Nov-2003 David Schultz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote: >> >> David, >> >> Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and >> then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed >> and would keep "waiting" till system reboo

Re: rfork problem

2003-11-11 Thread David Schultz
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, David Schultz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote: > > > > David, > > > > Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and > > then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed > > and would keep "waiting" till

Re: rfork problem

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Edwards
David Schultz wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote: David, Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed and would keep "waiting" till system reboot. Aah, I see. No, it's not

Re: rfork problem

2003-11-04 Thread David Schultz
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote: > > David, > > Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and > then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed > and would keep "waiting" till system reboot. Aah, I see. No, it's not okay that a non

Re: rfork problem

2003-11-04 Thread Igor Serikov
David, Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed and would keep "waiting" till system reboot. I do not think it is a good idea to make ppwait state uninterruptible in any case. As to RFNOW

Re: rfork problem

2003-11-04 Thread David Schultz
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote: > > Hello, > > Combining flags RFNOWAIT and RFPPWAIT in rfork(2) under 4.6-RELEASE > makes the parent process sleeping on channel "ppwait" forever. RFPPWAIT tells rfork() to wait for the child to exit, and RFNOWAIT tells rfork() to detach the child su

rfork problem

2003-11-03 Thread Igor Serikov
Hello, Combining flags RFNOWAIT and RFPPWAIT in rfork(2) under 4.6-RELEASE makes the parent process sleeping on channel "ppwait" forever. Regards, Igor. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hacke