Possible problem with timeouts?

2002-01-11 Thread Skye Poier
Hello Hackers, While doing an audit of the timer code in FreeBSD's kernel one of our developers came across a theoretical bug and I thought I'd run it by the gurus on this list before we hack around it. It seems that it is possible to call untimeout and then have your timer called immediately

RE: Possible problem with timeouts?

2002-01-11 Thread John Baldwin
On 11-Jan-02 Skye Poier wrote: Hello Hackers, While doing an audit of the timer code in FreeBSD's kernel one of our developers came across a theoretical bug and I thought I'd run it by the gurus on this list before we hack around it. It seems that it is possible to call untimeout and

Re: Possible problem with timeouts?

2002-01-11 Thread Terry Lambert
Skye Poier wrote: It seems that it is possible to call untimeout and then have your timer called immediately thereafter. However, we haven't actually seen this in practice, this is a theoretical bug. If this is indeed the case, it will break lots of our code (misunderstood semantics..) Yes,