Re: CVS commit: src/sys

["Mindaugas R." <rmind%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       rmind
> > Date:               Sun Nov  4 11:20:35 UTC 2007
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/kern: sysv_msg.c sysv_sem.c
> >     src/sys/sys: sem.h
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Support for dynamic changing of SysV message queues and semaphores limits.
> > Also fixes the alignment problem, which was here forever.  Thanks for
> > <uwe> for discussion and <martin> for testing.
> > 
> > Reviewed by: <tech-kern>, <gdt>
> 
> why make syscalls return EINTR when resizing?
> 
> YAMAMOTO Takashi

Sorry for late reply.

Why else you want to do? They might loop a long time, so we EINTR (this error
code is appropriate) all waiters when resizing. Note that we wont have stale
pointers. It is a rare operation and such behaviour should not hurt, thought.

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Mindaugas
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