Re: [PATCH] console close race fix resend

[Gordon Oliver]

On 2001.12.10 17:51 Robert Love wrote:
> Marcelo,
> 
> [ Resend of previous patch, now against pre8.  Note it (a) is a bug fix
> and (b) was in Alan's tree ]

and (c) appears to still have a race... You should extract
the value from the structure inside the lock, otherwise you
will still race with con_close (though perhaps a smaller race)
but since the call to acquire_console_sem() can sleep, the
vt handle you have may be stale.

> Please, for all that is righteous, apply.

please fix it better first...
(unless I am mistaken).
	-gordo