Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:07:42 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/10] send events using read | From | Vegard Nossum <> |
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2009/11/4 Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:59 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> Hi, Eric, >> >> This is not a full review, but I did notice a problem as I was trying to >> figure out the new API... > > This is a rip off of inotify which was introduced in commit 3632dee2f8b > from Vegard Nossum back in January. I can't seem to find any discussion > of this before it went into Linus' tree, so if someone knows how this > patch got to Linus and what was said about it, I'd like to know. Thanks > for unwittingly finding and inotify bug!
I don't have a git tree handy, but I think this is the locking imbalance fix. It went to the security list, so that's probably why you didn't find it. As far as I can tell, the code in question was wrong even before that patch, though.
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