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DateSun, 20 May 2007 13:01:31 +0200
FromPierre Ossman <>
SubjectRace free attributes in sysfs
Hi Greg,

I'm reworking the sysfs stuff in the MMC layer to be a bit more flexible, but
there is one thing that has me baffled; how do you add attributes to an object
in a race free manner when you have a dynamic set of attributes.

I've looked at other parts of the kernel and they all use:

1. Add object.
2. Add attributes.

To me, it seems like there's a window between 1 and 2 where the object is in
/sys but doesn't have the proper attributes. Life for user space gets very
annoying if it has to add artificial delays to avoid this window.

So how do I do this properly? Something like this would, from my point of view,
be the sane method:

1. Add hidden object.
2. Add attributes.
3. Show object.

Rgds
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-- Pierre Ossman

Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org
PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org
rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
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