Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2005 18:25:54 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty races |
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Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> wrote: > > The patch I proposed fixes the open vs. open race using the tty_sem. The > open vs. close race is closed by removing locking. Less locking seems > better to me.
But the additional locking is only temporary. Once we thing the tty_sem converage is complete, the lock_kernel()s get removed.
> If you're still not happy, I'll wrap the close path in the tty_sem...
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