In message <20040315012321.X1848_at_gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >vgone() has interesting locking problems. It seems to be a fundamentally >broken interface that only works if the kernel is not premptible or >possibly if everything related to vgone() is locked by Giant. Apparently >the lower levels know that Giant locking is needed. That's a fair way of putting it. Quite a bit of the brokenness comes from the revoke systemcall. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sun Mar 14 2004 - 06:19:16 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:47 UTC