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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:15:55 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL
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> What speaks against having on in fs_struct so that it's at least not
> globally serialized?

That would not handle fds passed between processes?

-Andi

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