setting those flags, it does not cause the inode to be written in the periodic
sync. This is used for writes to special files (devices and named pipes) and
FIFOs.
Do not preemptively sync updates to access times and modification times. They
are now updated in the inode only opportunistically, or when the file or device
is closed. (Really, it should be delayed beyond close, but this is enough to
help substantially with device nodes.)
And the most amusing part:
Trickle sync was broken on both FFS and ext2fs, in different ways. In FFS, the
periodic call to VFS_SYNC(MNT_LAZY) was still causing all file data to be
synced. In ext2fs, it was causing the metadata to *not* be synced. We now
only call VOP_UPDATE() on the node if we're doing MNT_LAZY. I've confirmed
that we do in fact trickle correctly now.
* Process A is closing one file descriptor belonging to a device. In doing so,
ffs_update() is called and starts writing a block synchronously. (Note: This
leaves the vnode locked. It also has other instances -- stdin, et al -- of
the same device open, so v_usecount is definitely non-zero.)
* Process B does a revoke() on the device. The revoke() has to wait for the
vnode to be unlocked because ffs_update() is still in progress.
* Process C tries to open() the device. It wedges in checkalias() repeatedly
calling vget() because it returns EBUSY immediately.
To fix, this:
* checkalias() now uses LK_SLEEPFAIL rather than LK_NOWAIT. Therefore it will
wait for the vnode to become unlocked, but it will recheck that it is on the
hash list, in case it was in the process of being revoke()d or was revoke()d
again before we were woken up.
* Since we're relying on the vnode lock to tell us that the vnode hasn't been
removed from the hash list *anyway*, I have moved the code to remove it into
the DOCLOSE section of vclean(), inside the vnode lock.
In the example at hand, process A was sh(1), process B was a child of init(8),
and process C was syslogd(8).
rather than EPERM; to emulate this properly, translate the error to EISDIR
if the target patch exists and points to a directory
this fixes the 'ant clean' problem reported by Marc Recht on current-users@
with SuSE 9.1 libraries
binary packages in the current working directory if -. is given on the
command line. If no -. is given, pkg_info will look for its information
in the ${PKG_DBDIR}.
This addresses a long-held gripe on the part of a number of people,
including myself, which completely violated the POLS.
Bump version for this and previous pkg_admin modification.
Fixes the change request in PR 26583, but in a different manner,
preserving existing behaviour and making the new behaviour dependent
upon a command line option.
mycroft