On Sat, 22 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> There is the possibility that it is now hidden as I cannot give you an 
> exact decription of how this occurs except for the above observations.
> 
> There's not much doubt in my mind that there was a potential race for the 
> wait q. There are 4 possible execution paths that modify the wait q 
> struct. Two are syncronous (so really are only one) but two are not.

Auugh. It's not as simple as that either in 2.4 due to the use of the BKL 
and a flag in autofs dentry struct. But I maintain there at least two 
paths that are timing sensitive.

Ian

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