Plug race in parallel autotest.
commit97ecc667f76f29369b3a4cbfdde2c61d5f0e131f
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:14:14 +0000 (20 21:14 -0600)
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:30:19 +0000 (20 21:30 -0600)
tree61a6fe54d7771684f057b38a9ab8f09ed6c63615
parent82f7cdadbbde10fa0b4ff11ce0311857258a08de
Plug race in parallel autotest.

* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <Fifo job dispatcher>: Track
two fds to fifo in parent, to avoid race where parent can see EOF
before child opens fifo.  Avoid any atomicity problems with tokens
larger than one byte.
* NEWS: Document the bug fix.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
ChangeLog
NEWS
lib/autotest/general.m4