On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
>I see five possible approaches:
[..]
> - locking: a request can acquire a lock while working on the variables
[..]
>to avoid the most obvious DoS problems, locking would probably need a way
>to "chain" reads, such that the kernel never has to wait for user space
>to release a lock.
* Locked callback from kernel
* read() that stores all requested data in one call, thus lockable
The latter would of course demand enough storage allocated.
Dunno, right now I'm really REALLY tired, I probably shouldn't have posted
this at all. X-)
//Peter
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