#: 20198 S5/OS9 Users Group
    09-Aug-94  21:20:44
Sb: #20191-#alm_delete bug
Fm: Boisy G. Pitre 74464,3005
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

 > Nick,
 >
 > I've also recently heard about that alarm bug in 2.4.  How many alarms
 > (and what kind) does it take to freeze the system?  We're getting strange
 > lockups all of a sudden on some machines which use the net a lot.

Speaking of alarm bugs in 2.4: I wrote a daemon at work some time back which
set up a cyclic alarm as super user, then changed to another user via setuid().
When the daemon died prematurely as the changed user, the kernel went in an
infinite loop trying to delete the alarm.  I can't remember the particulars,
but it has been fixed in 3.0 -- Boisy G. Pitre__    __  __              Delphi:
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