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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:45:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > +remove-down_tty_sem.patch > +tty-locking-again.patch > > Really, really fix the tty open/close race. Erm, note that tty drivers are supposed to handle the open/close stuff themselves, and it is completely valid for ->close to be called while another thread is in ->open. In fact, it's desirable since ->open may be waiting for the DCD line from a modem to activate, while there may be a simultaneous O_NONBLOCK open/ioctl/close from stty. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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