Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:34:02 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [FIX] Make deadlock detection work for file locking |
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't have POSIX in front of me, but I do not think > > the system must detect deadlock. It is allowed to detect > > deadlock, and in case it happens to do so EDEADLK is the > > apprpriate error return. > > Do you know if SuS is that relaxed ?
SuS v2 saith:
A potential for deadlock occurs if a process controlling a locked region is put to sleep by attempting to lock another process' locked region. If the system detects that sleeping until a locked region is unlocked would cause a deadlock, fcntl() will fail with an [EDEADLK] error.
regards, Tigran
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