Re: [PATCH] ipc/sem.c: fix update sem_otime when calling sem_op insemaphore initialization

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Sep 22 2013 - 06:00:58 EST


On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 17:34 +0800, Jia He wrote:
> Thanks for the comments, but pls add my email as "from jiakernel@xxxxxxxxx"
> if you have a better implementation.U know, it is my first kernel patch, maybe
> will give me a brilliant memory in the future :)

You can have the blame if you like :)

> Anyway, your implementation looks not correct to me. Because from "man semop"
> sem_otime will record the last sem operation time of semop. If you change the
> otime in semget(), it changes the meanings in stardard, doesn't it?

A Linux kernel doing a semop in 1970 would be a kinda neat trick :)

-Mike

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