pidfile_open incorrectly returns EAGAIN when pidfile is locked
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 14 16:51:14 UTC 2013
On Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:29:58 pm Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:42:40AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:44:20 am Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:28:25AM +0100, Dirk Engling wrote:
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> > > > On 13.03.13 23:08, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I think I considered something similar at first, but the change I
> > > > > proposed was optimal, IMHO at the cost of producing pretty large
> > > > > diff, because of indentation change. But to be sure, can you send a
> > > > > patch of your proposed change?
> > > >
> > > > http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/Code/pidfile.c.diff
> > >
> > > Right. Your patch assumes EWOULDBLOCK is equal to EAGAIN, which is true
> > > on FreeBSD, but is not portable. Also in case pidptr is NULL you compare
> > > errno three times instead of just one (not a big deal of course, just
> > > something that could be done a bit more optimal:)).
> >
> > Geeze, why not just add an else. That's the really short diff:
>
> Heh, I did consider that as well, but here you check errno twice,
> instead of once. Guys, is there anything wrong with the patch I
> proposed?
I'm sure the compiler can work that out just fine and it should do whatever
is most readable to the programmer. I don't care either way.
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John Baldwin
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