Re: What does 'lock order reversal' mean?

From: Jon Noack (noackjr_at_alumni.rice.edu)
Date: 04/10/04

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    Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:32:25 -0500
To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>

    On 4/10/2004 1:21 PM, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
    > Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
    >> <snip>
    >>
    >> I'll put up a webpage of false-positives if someone will commit a
    >> change in the LOR warning to point to it (or something similar to
    >> this): "lock order reversal: please see http://example.com for
    >> status before reporting"
    >>
    >> I still think it would be best if this page were on the FreeBSD
    >> website, but I'll host it if necessary.
    >
    > Let's make it happen. If either you want to host it or have me put
    > it in http://people.freebsd.org/~green/ for now, that will be
    > easiest. Actually putting it somewhere in the whole "FreeBSD web
    > site" infrastructure means finding someone from the doc committers
    > who knows more about it than I would.
    >
    > It would be better just to have a bug database that could handle this
    > sort of task, maybe one day....

    OK -- I'll ask doc@ for advice. Once I have a page ready I'll let you
    know so you can commit the change to the lock order reversal warning.

    Thanks!
    Jon

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