On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:47:15 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, but the fact is that is really is invalid use of mutex -- because the > mutex owner could become seriously wrong after fork() or sending the > filedescriptor through unix socket ... this easily leads to broken > situation. > > This seems to have been introduced in e824290e5d ... Alessandro, could you > convert this to test_and_set_bit()/clear_bit() semantics instead of a > mutex please? Hi Jiri, I was away for the weekend and just saw the whole discussion and your patch and I'm happy to ack it. Thank you very much a thanks to Gabriel for the bug report! -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
