Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:26:30 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] exec: fix posix-timers leak and pending signal loss |
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote: > > Frankly, I think the old code is much more prone to unforeseen problems > than the new.
It's a question of testing coverage, and historical fragility of that part of the code. I'm uncomfortable making changes in there unless we're early in the release cycle.
> > Had you not rolled three distinct patches into one (hint) I'd have > > forwarded along the leak fix and sat on the rest for post-2.6.9. > > I don't like being an enabler of bad code. So I didn't do a separate fix > inside something that I already knew needed to be ripped out. If you want > an untested minimal fix for just the leak potential, leaving the semantics > frotzed in multiple ways
As long as "frotzed" != "goes oops mysteriously two days after we release 2.6.9" I'm happy.
> you can try the following.
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