From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 04:22:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 04:21:52 -0400 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:31244 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 04:21:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3AFCF294.10A93DD6@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:21:40 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J . A . Magallon" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] new version of singlecopy pipe In-Reply-To: <3AFC36BA.B71FC470@colorfullife.com> <20010512020742.A1054@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > On 05.11 Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > Please test it. > > The kernel space part should be ok, but I know that the > > patch can cause deadlocks with buggy user space apps. > > > > I tried your patch on 2.4.4-ac8, and something strange happens. > Untarring linux-2.4.4 takes a little time, disk light flashes, > but no files appear on the disk (just 'Makefile', as you will see below). > Doing a separate gunzip - tar xf works fine: > > werewolf:~/soft/kernel# gtar zxf linux-2.4.4.tar.gz > werewolf:~/soft/kernel# ls linux-2.4.4 > Makefile Could you try if 'strace -f -F gtar zxf linux-2.4.4.tar.gz > /tmp/trace 2>&1' hangs? If yes, please send me the strace. -- Manfred