Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:19:53 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit |
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Alexander Viro writes: > Call them well-behaving modules if you wish. For these the answers > are "yes"/"a lot of things can be"/"it's easy to handle". What's > left? The pieces of code with really complex interfaces. And guess > what, race-prevention is complex for these guys - and it's not just > about rmmod races. E.g. parts of procfs, sysctls and devfs are > still quite racy even if you compile everything into the tree and > remove all module-related syscalls completely.
Can you point to specific problems with the current devfs code?
Regards,
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