Re: Potential lockup in do_sys_truncate?

[willy]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:04:36PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Am I misunderstanding what lock_kernel() does, or would calling this
> function twice from within the same syscall cause the system to lock up
> because you are trying to get the same lock twice?

lock_kernel is special and can be acquired multiple times by the same task.