Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 22/29] sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:45:02 -0800 |
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Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> writes:
> > Why do you only check the given @set after creating the new dir. Why > not the parent dir too?
That is a race and a minor bug. Somehow I had convinced myself that either it didn't matter or that it would be hard to deal with, but that doesn't hold up. Oops. Thankfully the final version using links does not have this race/bug.
Eric
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