On 21 March 2012 13:37, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... OK, points essentially taken and will push through another patch in due course ... just a couple of points, though: * Did the defensive stuff because bad guys might inject evil code rather than because I thought in normal run of execution there would be an issue - guess I just have to forget that? * On the semaphore - what should I use? Uninterruptible? Spinlock? Aren't there big downsides to them also? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html