From: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>
To: "Ben Greear" <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "Dave Jones" <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:55:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a36005b50610211455t35b5a097r5f9f25ff9238cb46@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453A622C.2020401@candelatech.com>
On 10/21/06, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> Well, you can do tricks with file handles so that they are automatically
> closed/deleted when
> a process exits, even with kill -9.
Nope, that cannot work. The lock object must be visible in the
filesystem space.
The correct solution would be to use robust mutexes. But, as Dave
said, it's easier said than implemented in rpm.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-21 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 18:38 Ben Greear
2006-10-21 5:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 17:45 ` Ben Greear
2006-10-21 18:00 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 18:08 ` Ben Greear
2006-10-21 21:55 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2006-11-27 0:02 ` Denis Vlasenko
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