Messages in this thread |  | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] sigurg/sigio cleanup for 2.5.31 | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:50:28 +0400 (MSD) |
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Hello!
> All existing paths which write to the pid/uid/euid fields are protected by > the BKL
euid? Are you about current->xxx? You jest, you read it, not write.
Well, and if you are going to say that reading is racy, then I wonder why you started from this place, not from another users current->xxx, which are really critical and surely cannot use bkl. :-)
> > But I daresay this is deadlock: > > Yep.
Ergo, never use BKL. :-)
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