On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > What would be if a program, who taken that mutex get dead before releasing > it? You wouldn't receive a notification about its death, although with > IOCTL's you would receive it. Will you invent a motex revoking mechanism for > that. Any mutex that has been locked by kernel code should be unlocked before control is given back to userspace. Making kernel mutexes visible to userspace would be very bad design. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
