In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robe rt Watson writes: > >On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> The problem seems to be due to select() being called on the /dev/null >> device, and it is holding the filedesc lock when it reaches >> PICKUP_GIANT() in spec_poll. > >Yeah, this is pretty much the same issue you've been bumping into for a >bit -- we hold filedesc lock over select(), which means every object we >poll can't grab a lock that either comes before the file descriptor lockin >the lock order, or that might sleep.
Doesn't this effectively doom any attempt at getting rid af Giant from below ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
