Re: bug? 2.2.5 ac6 and sshd 1.2.26

Ivan Kokshaysky (ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:41:24 +0400


On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 12:30:57AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> Bother. Yet another semaphore bug. I don't think your patch is
> correct, since it would decrement both count and waking with
> (count=0, waking=0).
>

To be exact, both are decremented when waking>=0.
down_trylock() on i386 works the same way. Does it mean
a bug in their code?

Ivan.

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