--- initscripts-6.91/src/minilogd.c.orig	2001-01-30 01:31:07.000000000 +0300
+++ initscripts-6.91/src/minilogd.c	2003-04-21 23:03:29.000000000 +0400
@@ -125,9 +125,17 @@
       if ( (x>0) && ( pfds.revents & (POLLHUP | POLLNVAL)) )
 	done = 1;
       /* Check to see if syslogd's yanked our socket out from under us */
+
+      /*
+       * bor: it used to check atime as well. It provoked reace condition
+       * that resulted in deadlock during boot. atime is updated on socket
+       * connect. So every call to openlog/syslog/closelog changed atime
+       * so /dev/log has been recreated. In the worst case initlog was left
+       * connected to old /dev/log with nobody to read from and hung
+       */
       if ( (stat(_PATH_LOG,&s2)!=0) ||
 	    (s1.st_ino != s2.st_ino ) || (s1.st_ctime != s2.st_ctime) ||
-	    (s1.st_mtime != s2.st_mtime) || (s1.st_atime != s2.st_atime) ) {
+	    (s1.st_mtime != s2.st_mtime) ) {
 	 done = 1;
 	 we_own_log = 0;
       }