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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: locking
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:22:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095895325.2454.135.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095895360.29226.17.camel@vertex>

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:22 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:

> Okay, this is my first kernel project so I didn't know/follow all of the
> rules, I admit it is a bit of a mishmash.

Heh, none of these issues were big, and everything else was fine.

> Yes, AFAIK the only places where we rely on the dev not going away are
> when we are handling a request from user space. As long as VFS
> operations are serialized I don't think we have to worry about that.

You can see what locks and serialization the VFS uses in
Documentation/filesystems/Locking

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-22 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 19:37 [patch] inotify: locking Robert Love
2004-09-22 19:38 ` Robert Love
2004-09-23  9:09   ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-22 23:22 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-22 23:22   ` Robert Love [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-28 22:33 [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.11.0 [WITH PATCH!] John McCutchan
2004-09-30 19:01 ` [patch] inotify: locking Robert Love
2004-09-30 19:17   ` Robert Love

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