On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It's obviously racy; I'm not sure if we care about that race, but if we
> do, there's about 80 drivers that need to be fixed...
I suspect the "we don't really care" is the correct answer here. It's
not like you can really screw things up by mistake, and if you try to
screw this up on purpose, you need to be root anyway to open
/dev/watchdog etc.
Linus
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