Re: BUG: disk corruption 2.3.99-pre4-pre3

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 14:55:17 EST


> Hmmm.... looks like somebody moved the locking in do_exit(). WTF?

It is neccessary. ->close() can block indefinitely. The old code totally
screwed up /proc access and other stuff because of this.

You cannot hold the task lock on a close. Period

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