Right anyone know why my NFS file opens don't function ?
I'm still getting the
lockd: failed to monitor <ipaddr of my nfsserver>
Server is Sol 2.6 ..
Thanks,
Dave.
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> After some further analysis of the wabi problem you reported, I've found the
> apparent problem and have attached a patch that should fix it.
>
> The problem arose whenever kmod was launched from the wabi task. The kmod
> process is created with CLONE_VM set, so it shares the mm struct and ldt with
> the original wabi process. But when kmod does an exec to run the modprobe
> process, exec_mmap() allocates a new mm structure, but failed to create a new
> private ldt. Then when the modprobe exited, the ldt was released even though
> it was still in use by wabi.
>
> The patch fixes this by changing exec_mmap to create a private ldt for the new
> mm struct, and to restore the old ldt if there's a failure.
>
> I haven't actually tested the patch with wabi, but it passes the Torvalds-test
> and should work OK.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
>
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