Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:33:25 -0700 (PDT) | From | Phy Prabab <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Missing BKL in sys_chroot() for 2.6 |
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Thanks for the clarification.
Phy
--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Phy Prabab wrote: > > > > > see what the BKL > > > > What does BKL stand for? > > "big kernel lock" aka the traditional global kernel > lock that these days > is not actually used that much any more. When you > see "lock_kernel()", > "unlock_kernel()", that's the BKL. > > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > 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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