Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:13:51 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 |
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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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