"M. Warner Losh" <i...@bsdimp.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> writes: > > "M. Warner Losh" <i...@bsdimp.com> writes: > > > Maybe the real problem is that devd locks the file, then dies. The > > > file remains locked, so the flopen is failing with EWOULDBLOCK. > > The lock is released when the process that holds it terminates. > So which process is that? devd took it out, and is subsequently > killed. When it restarts, it can't take out the lock.
What does fstat say about the pid file? > The same code works perfectly in 8.0-stable from April. > > The conclusion, I believe, is that somebody broke locking in > current... Before I wrote one of my earlier replies, I traced through the code paths that lead to a lock being released, and everything looks fine and dandy. Besides, if someone had, as you suggest, broken locking in current, there would be a lot more noise about it on the lists. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
