Bug#704003: ifupdown: race condition updating state file

2013-08-08 Thread Ray Link
Any progress on this? Confirmation from other users in the Ubuntu bug I filed for this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1160490/comments/5 I have multiple multi-interface machines which have scheduled weekly reboots. At least every other week, at least one of them fails

Bug#704003: ifupdown: race condition updating state file

2013-05-07 Thread Ray Link
On Tue, 7 May 2013, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hi, I was investigating this issue... This looks interesting, but... well, from what I see in the code, ifupdown currently fails as soon as it finds the lock is already taken, it doesn't wait at all. Or am I wrong? lock_fd() calls fcntl() to F_GETLKW.