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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:23:37 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> But please don't forget it is not strictly necessary f_op->fasync()
> must use fasync_helper(). And we have users (pipe_rdwr_fasync) which
> call fasync_helper() twice.

Understood. Any such change will certainly require an audit of all
in-tree fasync() implementations; that's part of why it's taking a
little while. But it also cleans things up and solves the atomicity
problems nicely, so I think it's worth trying.

jon


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