Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX

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* Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> 2007-06-18 12:39
> You are wrong.  Look in unix_release_sock():
> 
> 	if (atomic_read(&unix_tot_inflight))
> 		unix_gc();		/* Garbage collect fds */
> 
> 
> unix_tot_inflight is the number of AF_UNIX sockets currently being
> transferred over some AF_UNIX sockets.
> 
> That means that just sending (non-unix socket) fds over unix sockets
> will never invoke the gc.

That's what I meant, I'm sorry, I should have written unix socket
file descriptor to not leave any room for misinterpretation.
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