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. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
