Re: select/threads in 2.0.34 and newer 2.1 kernels

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:13:17 +0100 (BST)


> nscd will hang in the select call in connections.c/get_request. This
> select handles the established connections.

The only select change in .34 is to get and put the file handle locks. That
shouldnt make the slightest differences

> Somebody told me, that with kernel 2.0.34, there where made changes
> to make select thread safe. It seems, it is much more worse then earlier.
> I'm not a kernel hacker, so I don't know how to fix that. Does anybody
> from the kernel hackers know a solution ?

No. But I'd start by using strace on the nscd and the clients calling it
to see what is going on

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