Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man4

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 6, 11:58am, paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man4

| Hmmm.  I'm looking at the filemon_open() code.  It seems to have a "fd" 
| variable that gets set by fd_allocfile().  The value is later passed to 
| fd_clone() (NOT fd_clone() - two different routines, apparently!).
| 
| The value inside filemon_open() is 4, but when the application program 
| prints its returned value from open() it has fd #3.
| 
| Unless I can reliably determine which fd the program is using for its 
| access to /dev/filemon I don't have anything to which I can compare the 
| requested activity_log fd.

You could scan the whole fd array and look for DT_MISC with fops ==
filemon ops and if you find one that would cause a deadlock, deny.
Again this is a hack... But at least it should prevent the deadlock.

christos