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Alan Cox wrote:
>>> file structures - as well
>> How so?
> 
> Take a look at how file->f_flags is locked.

Ah I posted patches to fix that one a couple of weeks
ago, but unfortunately they fell out of -mm again.

It was part of the "unlocked fasync" patchkit.

-Andi