Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:48:56 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Subtle MM bug |
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:48:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > As the thread started it's not only only needed for pthreads, but also for NFS > > and setuid (actually NFS already implements it privately), and probably other network > > file systems too. So it's far from being only a "bad standard corner case". > > I wonder how Linux 2.2 worked, that doesnt have them. Now if its a clean way > of sorting out a pile of other things and it does pthreads as a side effect
Linux 2.2 setuid in nfs never worked quite like traditional Unix, and there were lots of reports because users were regularly rediscovering it.
I think the nfs patches merged in 2.2.18 fixed it (?)
> I've no problem, but arguing for it because of a tiny pthreads corner case > is coming from the wrong end
I'm not so sure the thread corner case is that tiny.
-Andi
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