Re: more devfs fun (Piled Higher and Deeper)

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 15:14:07 EST


Alexander Viro writes:
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > > BTW, new code still has both aforementioned races - detaching
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > entries from the tree doesn't help with that.
> >
> > Which "both"? You sent quite a few messages, listing more than two
> > races. I'm still wading through the list.
>
> Sorry - trimmed more than I should have. Ones mentioned in the
> message you were replying to - unregister() on parent vs. mknod() or
> unlink().

Ah, those. Next patch (just released) cleans that up a bit more. This
stuff is still a work in progress.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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