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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:29:11 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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       bfields@fieldses.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:15:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 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?

Doesn't need to be passed; just inherited from common ancestor...