On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:33 -0600 [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> I suspect that is a pretty rare case but it does indeed seem to exist > >> as a problem. > > > > I think so too. But either we have some misunderstanding of the > > codepaths involved, or the author of the comments there didn't > > consider this case, so... > > Do someone needs to stand up and write the additional patches. > Do we have a maintainer for fs/buffer.c? me, if any one, I guess. But I haven't really been following this discussion - too long and slow ;) 'twould be good if you could reprise it all in one email, presumably in diff -u form.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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