Re: PR/53998 CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas a écrit :
> The following reply was made to PR kern/53998; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
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> Subject: Re: PR/53998 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:58:55 -0500
> 
>  > 
>  > 	Christos,
>  > 
>  > 	Thanks a lot for this patch, but I'm not really sure it will fix this
>  > issue. Of course, with your patch, sem_init() will return ENOSPC instead
>  > of -1. but I'm not understand how a memory allocation error can occur in
>  > my code. I have verified that my test program doesn't contain memory
>  > leak and, when sem_init() fails, system has more than 10GB free.
>  > 
>  > 	Of course, I create a semahore with sem_init() in each thread but I
>  > destroy this semaphore also with sem_destroy() (returns 0) before
>  > pthread_exit().
>  
>  Yes, I understand, I am documenting that this also fails when the
>  max number of semaphors is exceeded. So perhaps we have a leak
>  somewhere. Can you share your test program?

	Of course, I can share this code. It is a test program written in
RPL/2. I will put both (RPL/2 sources and test program) on an anonymous
ftp server as soon as possible.

	Regards,

	JB