Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/dump

[Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:45:21AM +0000, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
  | 
  | Module Name:        src
  | Committed By:       hannken
  | Date:               Wed Feb 18 10:45:21 UTC 2004
  | 
  | 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

Thanks for this!  It fixes a problem I'd been having with amanda
for almost a year.

After upgrading the kernel and dump(8), the problems on the two
systems I saw this on has gone away.  (Just upgrading dump(8)
on a five month old -current kernel didn't suffice).


Luke.