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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:11:04 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: suspicious code in dtable::dup2
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:12:08PM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Looking at dtable::dup2 in dtable.cc, it appears that it is possible
>to lock the fd list resource then exit the function without
>unlocking it.  Which presumably could cause a hang sometime later.

You're right.  I checked in a fix for this.

Thanks.

cgf

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