Re: [xfs-masters] RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Jan 02 2009 - 13:29:23 EST


On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:15:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > What speaks against having on in fs_struct so that it's at least not
> > globally serialized?
>
> That would not handle fds passed between processes?

Doesn't need to be passed; just inherited from common ancestor...
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