Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:38:03 -0500
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who's job is it to avoid the race condition between when
> this function takes the strlen() and the other processor makes it a longer
> string before we return from kmalloc() and do the strcpy()?
The caller's.
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