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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: oskar@osk.mine.nu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: directory notifications lost after fork?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:01:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020312050104.V10413@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020310210802.GA1695@oskar> <20020311112652.E10413@dualathlon.random> <20020312120452.3038c4bc.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20020312022046.R10413@dualathlon.random> <20020312135949.3be7d9ca.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020312135949.3be7d9ca.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:59:49PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> My patch makes directory notifiers per thread group instead of per process
> tree (which they are now).

I overlooked that in your patch you changed the index for the lookup, so
yes, that looks a better fix.

> This would be equivalent to returning -EPERM if you tried to remove a
> lock on a file when you didn't set it ...

Lock are standard and we cannot change such API, but for a fairly new
API I'd prefer strict stuff. Anyways now -EPERM would be wrong and the
need of the errorback is also lower because there's no risk of
collisions anymore, now different current->files will be able to get
different notifiers, so if something it should be a -ENOENT, it's not a
matter of permissions/ownership anymore.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-12  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-10 21:08 directory notifications lost after fork? Oskar Liljeblad
2002-03-11  7:41 ` Alex Riesen
2002-03-12 12:19   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-11  8:50 ` Oskar Liljeblad
2002-03-11 10:20   ` Alex Riesen
2002-03-11 10:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12  1:04   ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-03-12  1:20     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12  2:59       ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-03-12  4:01         ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
     [not found] <20020311122701.A9718@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com>
2002-03-11 19:34 ` Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-12  1:47 Malte Starostik
2002-03-12 12:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-12 16:37   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-12 17:21     ` Jamie Lokier

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