[linux-lvm] lvcreate segfaults

AJ Lewis lewis at sistina.com
Mon Sep 10 16:08:51 UTC 2001


On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:05:34AM -0500, John Marquart wrote:
> Thanks AJ,
> 	Me and my trusty ddd had figured out the same thing - that an
> extra printf inserted into the function fixed it.  It is a darn weird bug
> though.
> 	Thanks for the link - made a much nicer cleaner patch then my
> own. :)

Hmm...sounds like there must be a race condition in there somewhere...very
odd.  That's the only thing I can think of that would make the difference,
since the printf could serialize the code somewhat...and it was a dual-proc
machine, so...

Regards,
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