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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:24:01 +0200
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Bug in __pollwait() can cause select() and poll() to
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Rusty Russell wrote:

>2.5 has exactly the same issue: perhaps 2.4 should take this patch,
>and 2.5 should try something better (I'd suggest trying the embedded
>minitable approach).
>
>  
>
I tried it, but Linus didn't like the idea of on-stack minitables. The 
patches are still at
http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred/Linux-Kernel/poll/

--
    Manfred