Re: FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races

Frank Steiner
2004-08-09T08:33:26Z

Jirka Kosina wrote:

> It hasn't been discussed here, but at
> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/gnupatch@411064f7uz3rKDb73dEb4vCqbjEIdw
> you can find a patchset fixing (some of) the mentioned problems. This
> patchset is from 2.4.27-rc5

So this is for 2.4. What about 2.6? Distributors like RedHat have patched
their 2.6.7 kernel accordingly, but I haven't found anything similar in
the kernel tree from kernel.org. Do you know if there is any a fix for
the 2.6 tree, too?

cu,
Frank

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