On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:03:33AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > > >Have I missed the posting with analysis of changes in locking scheme > >and update of proof of correctness? If so, please give the message ID. > > > >_That_ had been the major showstopper for any merges, IIRC. > > > > > Ah, the prince of helpfulness has arrived. > > Yes, as I remember,
Kindly put some efforts into remembering the thread that contains e.g. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109347094309283&w=2 If that work (summary: introduction of hybrid objects invalidates the existing locking scheme for directories and that had lead at least to several user-exploitable deadlocks described in details in the same thread; current proof of correctness is in the tree, see Documentation/filesystems/Directory-Locking.txt and at the very least it needs to be updated) had been done - please, give the message ID of posting with such update. If not - please, arrange getting it done.
