On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:28:21PM -0000, Michael Terry wrote: > Here's a simple debdiff that avoids the dd race condition and calls > open() as nonblocking. I'm still suspicious about why it's needed, so > I'm not yet subscribing a sponsor. Kees, do you know much about open() > on FIFOs and crazy blocking behavior?
Actually, I do. I studied a very weird situation (that does kind of smell like this problem) in usplash: http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2008/03/09/using-select-on-a-fifo/ I'm still not clear why O_NONBLOCK can't just stay flagged, though. -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- hanging during start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423943 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
