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| author | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-07 07:24:50 +0000 |
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| committer | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-07 07:24:50 +0000 |
| commit | b07bfac2ade9af2fcad138d2abc8eedc1d4be44e (patch) | |
| tree | dab8cfec2c5fa7894f50e5349bf4ace6d8cb3f98 /lib/libutil | |
| parent | 5029fdebbeda7df34d82b0c329d1c947134fa1fe (diff) | |
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Remove the claim that UUCP locking were not atomic. It is since
revision 1.8 of uucplock.c.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libutil')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libutil/uucplock.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/uucplock.3 b/lib/libutil/uucplock.3 index c65e141..c920e4a 100644 --- a/lib/libutil/uucplock.3 +++ b/lib/libutil/uucplock.3 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: uucplock.3,v 1.8 1997/08/10 18:42:38 ache Exp $ +.\" $Id: uucplock.3,v 1.9 1997/09/29 19:11:25 wosch Exp $ .\" " .Dd March 30, 1997 .Os @@ -151,18 +151,6 @@ for further details. .Xr read 2 , .Xr write 2 .Sh BUGS -Locking is not atomic. Should a race condition occur, it's -possible that the -.Dq losing -process fails to identify the -.Dq winning -process. If this happens, -.Fn uu_lock -returns -.Dv UU_LOCK_READ_ERR -and errno is set to -.Er EINVAL . -.Pp It is possible that a stale lock is not recognised as such if a new processes is assigned the same processes id as the program that left the stale lock. |
