On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:23:37 +0100 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But please don't forget it is not strictly necessary f_op->fasync() > must use fasync_helper(). And we have users (pipe_rdwr_fasync) which > call fasync_helper() twice. Understood. Any such change will certainly require an audit of all in-tree fasync() implementations; that's part of why it's taking a little while. But it also cleans things up and solves the atomicity problems nicely, so I think it's worth trying. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
