Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5

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On 10/21/06, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, you can do tricks with file handles so that they are automatically
closed/deleted when
a process exits, even with kill -9.

Nope, that cannot work.  The lock object must be visible in the
filesystem space.

The correct solution would be to use robust mutexes.  But, as Dave
said, it's easier said than implemented in rpm.
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