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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:13:29 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Dean Gaudet wrote:
> 
> I don't think it's worked around now ... 'cause I didn't know it was a
> problem I could have broken it.  But yeah the current graceful restart is
> quite different than the original.

My memory tells me that it occurred on several other platforms, too. But
my memory isn't what it used to be (I think).

Cheers,

Ben.

> 
> Dean
> 
> On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> > Dean Gaudet wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > >
> > > > Emprically, what SCO seemed to do was to wake one up immediately, and at
> > > > the next timeslice wake them all up if the event hadn't been dealt with.
> > > > This is why inserting almost any system call between select and accept
> > > > fixed the graceful restart problem.
> > >
> > > That is sick ... I guess I broke it for SCO in 1.3 then because I
> > > systematically removed a lot of syscalls.  Is that just SCO 5?  'cause
> > > -DSCO in conf.h doesn't define any serialization, which could exacerbate
> > > this problem.
> >
> > I only tested it on SCO 5 - but the problem was worked around another
> > way, anyway, wasn't it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ben.

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