Re: [RFC] tty: Add get- ioctls to fetch tty status

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:51:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > +static int pty_get_lock(struct tty_struct *tty, int __user *arg)
> > +{
> > +	int locked = test_bit(TTY_PTY_LOCK, &tty->flags);
> > +	if (put_user(locked, arg))
> > +		return -EFAULT;
> 
> Now explain exactly how this doesn't race with another thread chanigng
> the lock setting ?

It's the same as to set/clear this bit, isn't it? Please correct me
if I'm wrong.

> The other comment I have is that it might be better put these in now
> there are sysfs patches for the tty layer bouncing about to provide the
> needed infrastructure ?

Alan, could you please point me where these patches are living, so I would
take a look and check them out.

	Cyrill
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