On 2001.12.10 17:51 Robert Love wrote:
> Marcelo,
>
> [ Resend of previous patch, now against pre8. Note it (a) is a bug fix
> and (b) was in Alan's tree ]
and (c) appears to still have a race... You should extract
the value from the structure inside the lock, otherwise you
will still race with con_close (though perhaps a smaller race)
but since the call to acquire_console_sem() can sleep, the
vt handle you have may be stale.
> Please, for all that is righteous, apply.
please fix it better first...
(unless I am mistaken).
-gordo
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