Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>]

On Friday 13 September 2002 16:33, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > Because in your example, my_module_start() would not be able to run 
> > > separately
> > 
> > That's obvious.  What hasn't been shown is why that's necessary.
> 
> Yeah, but it was also obvious that my_module_init() can fail this way. 
> Look, first we watch the module initialization, that is, we run the 
> critical stuff like resource allocation, data structure allocation, etc. 
> If we fail here, we can't load the module, because it would be unoperative 
> if we proceed. (Because the data simply isn't there.)
> 
> And possibly Rusty wanted to avoid a certain race, which is unrelated to
> school and kids. Once we've initialized, the module can be used, earlier
> is balderdash.

On the face of it, your post is content-free.  To redeem yourself,
please identify the race Rusty avoided and show how I did not avoid
the same race.

-- 
Daniel