Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:21:48 +0200

> It had race conditions with console switching that were quite fundamental.
> Martin did a good job of hunting that down.

These race conditions were not introduced by Geert's patch -- they existed
from time immemorial (and I have several reports of such problems happening in
2.0.X), but as the console code slew down a bit, they bit us more often.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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