Nickolai Zeldovich 22293eeada honor-solaris-attr-hint-20010112 ... "The problem that it fixes is as follows: suppose user A's process maps something into its address space out of AFS. Now if user B runs "ps", or otherwise reads /proc/NNN/status, the kernel code will lock the associated entry in /proc and then proceed to find the size of the address space for that process; in doing so, it calls getattr(). If B does not have tokens to access the file, the fileserver will eventually start delaying responses to FetchStatus requests, and the kernel will block with /proc locked. The user-visible effect is that "ps", "w" and so on start blocking uninterruptibly for long periods of time."		2001-01-12 06:31:43 +00:00
doc	add a license	2000-11-04 03:34:07 +00:00
src	honor-solaris-attr-hint-20010112	2001-01-12 06:31:43 +00:00