Re: BKL removal
Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Sun, 07 Jul 2002 20:06:02 -0700
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
>>one struct file per open(), yes. however, fork() shares a struct file,
>>as does unix domain fd passing. so we need protection between different
>>processes. there's some pretty good reasons to want to use a semaphore
>>to protect the struct file (see fasync code.. bleugh).
>
> ??? What exactly do you want to protect there?
>
I think we were talking about file->private_data
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
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