Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] coredump: ELF-FDPIC: enable to omit anonymous shared memory | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:47:18 +0000 |
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Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> wrote:
> Okay, the probability that the process is blocked in the proc handler seems > to be small. But I'm not sure if problems never occur in enterprise use. > So I'd like to use down_write_trylock() as Robin said before. And if it > fails to acquire the lock, it returns EBUSY immediately. > Do you have any comments?
That's probably reasonable, but that means userspace then has to handle EBUSY.
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