Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 07 Jul 2002 20:06:02 -0700 | | From | Dave Hansen <> | | Subject | Re: BKL removal |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >>one struct file per open(), yes. however, fork() shares a struct file, >>as does unix domain fd passing. so we need protection between different >>processes. there's some pretty good reasons to want to use a semaphore >>to protect the struct file (see fasync code.. bleugh). > > ??? What exactly do you want to protect there? >
I think we were talking about file->private_data
-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com
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