Re: PROBLEM: Bug in __pollwait() can cause select() and poll() to hang in 2.4.22-pre2 -- second try

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 19:56:40 EST

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In message <3F031F0F.4020600@sgi.com> you write:
> Duh. My fault. I didn't see this in 2.4.22-pre2. Some checking shows
> that it is also in 2.4.20. How this didn't get into our SGI 2.4.20 tree
> is beyond me (this where we originally found this problem). So there is
> no problem in 2.4.22-pre2.
>
> Rusty -- thanks for your perseverence on this.

Hey, glad I could help.

As for perseverance, it's an occupational hazard. Linus has said
before that he doesn't want patches which don't get aggressively
pushed by someone, and indeed, they get lost. Hence the Trivial Patch
Monkey...

Cheers,
Rusty.

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