Subject: Re: Help with mount_smbfs
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/23/2007 17:11:48
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:28:11PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:24:50AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > On 2/22/07, Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >I thought I would try, and got kern/35787 which is a bit more exciting...
> > 
> > Is that the right pr number? I can't find it.
> 
> I stupidly marked it confidential in error - if anyone can change
> that, it would be great.

I changed the state..

> The moral is, with an i386 kernel built from yesterday's source,
> mount_smbfs gives me reproducibly:

This one should be fixed now.

> amusingly the sync then locks against itself:

panic() is unreliable, especially on multiprocessor systems. Fixing it
properly is a whole project in itself.

Cheers,
Andrew