Re: [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug ...

[Roland Dreier]

    Davide> Al found a potential problem in epoll_create(), where the
    Davide> file->private_data member was set after fd_install(). This is
    Davide> obviously wrong since another thread might do a close() on
    Davide> that fd# before we set the file->private_data member. This
    Davide> goes over 2.6.13 and passes a few basic tests I've done here.

Actually, I found the problem after Al pointed out a similar bug in my code ;)

 - R.
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