Re: Reauthentication implementation flaw due to EINTR

[Samuel Thibault]

Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Tue 29 Dec 2009 22:48:26 +0100, a écrit :
> It's still a mystery to me why ext2fs gets an EINTR without auth
> explicitly returning EINTR...

AIUI, the RPC gets aborted and ext2fs receives MACH_RCV_PORT_DIED, which
_hurd_intr_rpc_mach_msg turns into EINTR.

BTW, reproducing the bug is really easy:

while sudo date ; do : ; done

Samuel