On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:22:04AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:21:01AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Yeah. I almost think an OK iterim solution would be just to document > > the race in the appropriate man page and tell people that if they really > > want to use posix locks in an application with lots of threads sharing > > file descriptors then they should consider OFD locks. > > (Especially if this race has always existed.) Oh but note I'm only talking about this additional race that you've identified. I agree that the problem addressed by these patches need fixing, and gave them a quick read and they look OK to me--feel free to add my ACK. --b. -- 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
