Re: Updated Linux 2.4 issues page

From: Olivier Galibert (galibert@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 05:05:26 EST


On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> IMHO that can't happen, because these devices are single-open only, that
> is only one process can be using then at once. So I can't imagine how it
> would be able to sleep (in copy_to_user) and reenter the read/write
> routines both at once.

Think multi-threading. Even on UP.

  OG.
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