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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!news.sprintlink.net!clark.net!clark.net!not-for-mail From: ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: [NetBSD 0.9] wd.c patch does not work as advertised Date: 6 Jan 1994 09:45:26 -0500 Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <2gh866$o9g@explorer.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While it does fix most of the lock ups, it apparently doesn't get them all. After running for about an hour, I have a bunch of processes marked as `D` (uninteruptibly sleeping). If I startup ls -laR / >& /dev/null & in csh and let it run, it will NEVER finish! It will evenutally sleep and never wakeup. I need had this happen with the old wd.c. Is the a feechure of the patch? Anyone else have this happen? Perhaps the patch needs ensure that processes that are runnign at the time of a delay don't sleep forever? I'm not sure what's happening yet, so we'll see... -- Ack! Creek, not creek; Pop not soda; Car needs washed...