Subject: Re: patch to /etc/rc to stop xfs race condition
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/24/1998 19:28:11
On Oct 23,  7:24pm, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> ... could someone who ahs the patch to rc add a ``set +m'' or
> whatever-it-is please email me a copy? I would like to
> get some kind of fix for this into 1.3.3.

  Here's my patch.  It looks like someone stuck a "sleep 2" into the
file to fix this problem (or a similar one).

--- /c/src/etc/rc	Mon Jul 13 05:05:04 1998
+++ /etc/rc	Tue Mar  3 22:23:49 1998
@@ -424,8 +412,8 @@
 
 # Start xfs before boot daemons, so its ready before client xterminals.
 if checkyesno xfs; then
+	set -m
 	echo -n ' xfs';			xfs $xfs_flags &
-	sleep 2
 fi
 
 if checkyesno rarpd; then

-- 
Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA