From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon-best.transmeta.com [206.184.214.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21092 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:06:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:04:25 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: vfork & co bugfix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org