mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Bug in __pollwait() can cause select() and poll() to hang in 2.4.22-pre2 -- second try
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:56:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030703012314.888742C003@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:06:07 EST." <3F031F0F.4020600@sgi.com>

In message <3F031F0F.4020600@sgi.com> you write:
> Duh.  My fault.  I didn't see this in 2.4.22-pre2.  Some checking shows 
> that it is also in 2.4.20.  How this didn't get into our SGI 2.4.20 tree 
> is beyond me (this where we originally found this problem).  So there is 
> no problem in 2.4.22-pre2.
> 
> Rusty -- thanks for your perseverence on this.

Hey, glad I could help.

As for perseverance, it's an occupational hazard.  Linus has said
before that he doesn't want patches which don't get aggressively
pushed by someone, and indeed, they get lost.  Hence the Trivial Patch
Monkey...

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-03  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-27 18:19 Ray Bryant
2003-06-30  4:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-30 16:24   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-07-01  1:17     ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-01  4:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-01  5:08         ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-02 18:06           ` Ray Bryant
2003-07-03  0:56             ` Rusty Russell [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20030703012314.888742C003@lists.samba.org \
    --to=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
    --cc=ak@suse.de \
    --cc=akpm@digeo.com \
    --cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=manfred@colorfullife.com \
    --cc=raybry@sgi.com \
    --cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®