Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:56:47 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: pipe_release oops. |
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:43:53PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:31:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Probably not missing anything subtle. I think all of this code is very > > old, and related to previous /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> escapades. And the > > semantics for those files were in flux some time long long ago (the > > whole "dup vs new struct file" issue), it's all just duct-tape, I > > think. > > Umm... How about the following, then? I think it makes the whole thing > simpler and saner... NOTE: this got only a light beating and we'd > just seen an example of long-standing breakage in that area; I'd really > like to see it tortured by Dave's scripts before it gets merged into > mainline.
I can do that. I'll holler if I see anything that looks out of place.
Dave
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