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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: vfork & co bugfix
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:04:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990110100157.7668A-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14spz8vyx.fsf@flinx.ccr.net>



On 10 Jan 1999, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Looking at vfork in 2.2.0-pre6 I was struck by how badly 
> looking at current, (to release a process) hacks up mmput.
> 
> It took a little while but eventually a case where
> this really goes wrong.

Note that the pre6 version has a number of cases where it can really screw
up, don't even look at them too closely. I think I've fixed them all - it
was really simple, but there was a few things I hadn't originally thought
of. 

I'll make a pre7 once I've verified that the recursive semaphores work at
least to some degree, could you please take a look at that one?

		Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-10 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-10  6:48 Eric W. Biederman
1999-01-10 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
1999-01-10 21:34   ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-01-11  4:32   ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-01-11  6:35     ` Linus Torvalds
1999-01-11  6:59       ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-01-11  7:31         ` Linus Torvalds

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