Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/dump
To: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 02/18/2004 14:53:43
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> Modified Files:
> src/sbin/dump: tape.c
> Log Message:
> Avoid signal race condition. If a slave gets the SIGUSR2 signal between
> the "setjmp" and the "ready = 1" statements the slave will pause forever
> and the complet dump hangs.
> Fixes PR #24453
Thank you! Yes, this does seem to fix the problem for me.
Why was the race not noticed before? The relevant part of dump/tape.c
seems to have been unmodified for several years.
--apb (Alan Barrett)