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

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/53998; it has been noted by GNATS.

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Subject: Re: PR/53998 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:55:23 +0100

 Christos Zoulas a écrit :
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/53998; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > 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