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diff --git a/open_issues/locking_issues.mdwn b/open_issues/locking_issues.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7086107b --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/locking_issues.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + +There are locking issues in the Hurd's libraries. + +[[!toc]] + + +# Original [[community/GSoC]] Task Description + +[[!inline pages=community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking feeds=no]] + + +# ext2fs Deadlock + +[[ext2fs_deadlock]]. + + +# Formal Verification + +Methods of [[formal_verification]] should be applied to get an understanding of +the behavior of the locking logic. There are tools for formal +verification/[[code_analysis]] that can likely help here. + +There is a [[!FF_project 278]][[!tag bounty]] on this task. + + +# IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-12-15 + + <Steap> youpi: can you think of a locking error recently fixed in the + translators ? I'd like to try a Coccinelle script on a real-world example + <youpi> 0b6286a3c5eb86e3cca72d0840fc009855e4fba5 for instance + <youpi> or a60414ee7fdabb2bdfb17fe82b9a09f811bd2de0 + <youpi> or b8082aab5049f753abd720a5ef6a113e2acef911 + <Steap> thx, I think I might have caught a few double unlocks, I'll send + patches/bug reports this week-end + +[[!message-id "1355701890-29227-1-git-send-email-tipecaml@gmail.com"]]. |