Re: dma(8): Fix race condition in multi-recipient delivery

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>     I believe flock() behaves more rationally.
> :
> :Yah, I simply went and re-opened the file instead of using locks.  I also 
> :have a new queueing code in the works that will get rid of this problem 
> :entirely.
> :
> :cheers
> :   simon
>
>     The last time I looked at the code I also noticed that the file
>     descriptors were getting spammed by the fork()... that the children
>     would inherit the parent's entire fd set, even open fd's related
>     to queue files other then the one the child is supposed to
>     process.

Yes, I'm working on all that.

cheers
  simon

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