On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:47:15 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but the fact is that is really is invalid use of mutex -- because the
> mutex owner could become seriously wrong after fork() or sending the
> filedescriptor through unix socket ... this easily leads to broken
> situation.
>
> This seems to have been introduced in e824290e5d ... Alessandro, could you
> convert this to test_and_set_bit()/clear_bit() semantics instead of a
> mutex please?
Hi Jiri,
I was away for the weekend and just saw the whole discussion
and your patch and I'm happy to ack it. Thank you very much
a thanks to Gabriel for the bug report!
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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