Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio | Date | Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:05:15 +0100 | From | Ivo van Doorn <> |
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On Sunday 03 December 2006 20:20, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this open_count thing smells fishy to me; what are the locking rules for > it? What guarantees that the readers of it don't get the value changed > underneath them between looking at the value and doing whatever action > depends on it's value ?
Good point, a race condition could indeed occur in the only reader that sends the signal to the userspace through the input device. I'll fix this immediately.
Thanks,
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