Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] thread wakeup fix for 2.4.0-test7 | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:17:23 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Linus wrote: > > My claim is that a user program that does a close() on a file that is in > > use is inherently racy. Is that so hard to understand? > > Unfortunately, Java programs do this a lot, as it's the > only reliable way to break a thread out of a blocking I/O call > there.
Then either the Java program is broken and its not a portable java guarantee or the java runtime is broken and assumes things that are not guaranteed by the underlying environment
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