From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] [2.6.29] epoll: fix for epoll_wait sometimes returning events on closed fds
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A45E13.80608@cybernetics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902241241530.20039@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Davide Libenzi wrote:
> No. Like it has been explained, MT applications can report events for
> closed files anyway. It is a matter of where the close() happen in time
> (pretty easy to figure out if you make a time/thread chart).
> As for the other patches, some could be applied, but I didn't look at them
> deeply and I need time to review them. Will take time to review them
> tomorrow or the day after.
>
>
>
> - Davide
>
>
>
>
OK then. Not the answer I wanted, but that's life. Good news for
everyone else though - there is no need to remake the patches already in
-mm. So please ignore the patches marked [2.6.29] and use the patches
marked [-mm] instead (excluding patch #1, which has now been rejected).
Tony
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 17:26 [PATCH 1/6] [2.6.29] epoll: fix for epoll_wait sometimes returning events on closed fds Tony Battersby
2009-02-24 18:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-24 18:44 ` Tony Battersby
2009-02-24 19:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-24 20:36 ` Tony Battersby
2009-02-24 20:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-02-24 20:52 ` Tony Battersby [this message]
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