On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:13:20 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:19:31PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > 1) Use i_lock to protect accesses to f_flags. This would enable some > > BKL usage to be removed, but would not fix fasync. > > What about just turning f_ep_lock into f_lock and using it? Ah, yes I was going to say that too, but I confused i_lock with i_mutex because it sounded like Jon needed a sleeping lock here? Agree f_lock would be good. It might come in handy for other things too. -- 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
