On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 21:56 +0100, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> On Di, 2007-01-30 at 01:55 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > The system is now through more than 25000 mails, and hasn't hit the bug
> > > yet.
> > > When it finished delivering, I'll setup another mailbomb and stress it
> > > over the night, let's cross fingers that it works. I'll then file a bug
> > > with the debian util-linux package and attach the patch to it.
> > > Not close()ing the "we_created_lockfile" in unlock_mtab() seems like a
> > > bug to me, anyway ;)
> > 
> > Ya, but it gets closed at exit anyway.
> 
> Ah, of course!
> 
> I sent a mail earlier today, but it didn't come through to the list,
> dunno why, hence the Cc: on you.
> 
> The bug/race hit again when the system delivered about 95% of the mail,
> with a few directories in /homes/ and /nfs4homes/ that belonged to root
> and were empty, with an error in syslog that said "/homes/musrXXX
> already mounted" (I don't have the exact messages here, can post them
> tomorrow when I'm in the office).

An interesting dilemma, either let the process continue and risk
corrupting mtab or not update the mtab for a mount that is already
succeeded or possibly wait forever on a stale mtab lock file.

Ian


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