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authorJoerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-07 07:24:50 +0000
committerJoerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-07 07:24:50 +0000
commitcfeb4fd2736b956f237881cb495918c8f40282af (patch)
tree61667e507ef89cdc454097aa32127ec485f1f616
parenta73927ee240505d43463b1e23111c83ad76ef4e2 (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/uucplock.314
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/uucplock.3 b/lib/libutil/uucplock.3
index c65e141d4c0e..c920e4a2845f 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/uucplock.3
+++ b/lib/libutil/uucplock.3
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: uucplock.3,v 1.8 1997/08/10 18:42:38 ache Exp $
+.\" $Id: uucplock.3,v 1.9 1997/09/29 19:11:25 wosch Exp $
.\" "
.Dd March 30, 1997
.Os
@@ -151,18 +151,6 @@ for further details.
.Xr read 2 ,
.Xr write 2
.Sh BUGS
-Locking is not atomic. Should a race condition occur, it's
-possible that the
-.Dq losing
-process fails to identify the
-.Dq winning
-process. If this happens,
-.Fn uu_lock
-returns
-.Dv UU_LOCK_READ_ERR
-and errno is set to
-.Er EINVAL .
-.Pp
It is possible that a stale lock is not recognised as such if a new
processes is assigned the same processes id as the program that left
the stale lock.