Re: [PATCH] VT locking

Pavel Machek
2004-01-06T12:15:13Z

Hi!

> The VT code is currently, it seems, full of races, it basically doesn't
> do any locking... This patch is definitely not fixing everything,
> but at

And the races bite, BTW. For years I was seeing weird stuff like
console output on blanked console if scroll happened at approximately
same time as blank. It was hard to reproduce reliably, through.
Pavel

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