Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug ... | | From | Roland Dreier <> | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:59:02 -0700 |
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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 ;)
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