Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue

[Robert Love]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:25, Patrick Mochel wrote:

> Yeah, how about this ammended patch? 

Both this and Greg's look fine.

I guess this is preferred, since the lock hold time is shorter :)

> +	spin_lock(&sequence_lock);
> +	seq = sequence_num++;
> +	spin_unlock(&sequence_lock);
> +
> +	envp [i++] = scratch;
> +	scratch += sprintf(scratch, "SEQNUM=%ld", seq) + 1;

Nice thinking. It is a shame we need a lock for this, but we don't have
an atomic_inc_and_return().

	Robert Love