Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:47:28 +1100 David Chinner <[email protected]> wrote:On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:40:54AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:Sami Farin wrote:On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:37:34 +1100, David Chinner wrote: ...fstab was there just fine after -u.Oh, that still hasn't been fixed?Looked like it =)Hm, it was proposed upstream a while ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/27/137 I guess it got lost?Seems like it. Andrew, did this ever get queued for merge?Seems not. I think people were hoping that various nasties in there would go away. We return to userspace with a kernel lock held??
Is a semaphore any worse than the current mutex in this respect? At least unlocking from another thread doesn't violate semaphore rules. :)
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