David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why is it impossible to free struct lock_files? I understand that they > become part of a linked list, and that there's an atexit handler that > goes over that list. But couldn't we just remove them from the linked > list and then free them? I suspect that the code is worried about getting a signal, while it is manipulating the linked list, and then cause the atexit handler to walk a list that is in a broken state. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html