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2007 May 02
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Deadlock when child process is forking?
...re I have been
unable to reproduce in the field so far. I''ve been able to reproduce
on other platforms.
Here is the scenario. You''ve got a target process, which has
static probes. It is calling fork(), which causes it to end up at line
330
in fork.c:
> 328 if (p->p_dtrace_helpers != NULL) {
> 329 ASSERT(dtrace_helpers_fork != NULL);
> 330 (*dtrace_helpers_fork)(p, cp);
> 331 }
> 332
> 333 mutex_enter(&p->p_lock);
> 334 p->p_flag &= ~SFORKING;
> 335 sprunlock(p);
As you can see, the parent is sprl...