On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well. We _could_ whack part of this nut with my usual hammer: protect > f_flags with file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_lock. IIRC there was some > objection to that - performance?
If you meant it for epoll, that uses a single shared inode, that'd turn to be a global lock. - Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
