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SubjectRe: [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug ...
FromRoland Dreier <>
DateFri, 16 Sep 2005 16:59:02 -0700
    Davide> Al found a potential problem in epoll_create(), where the
Davide> file->private_data member was set after fd_install(). This is
Davide> obviously wrong since another thread might do a close() on
Davide> that fd# before we set the file->private_data member. This
Davide> goes over 2.6.13 and passes a few basic tests I've done here.

Actually, I found the problem after Al pointed out a similar bug in my code ;)

- R.
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