From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760486AbZBXUwy (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759481AbZBXUwi (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:38 -0500 Received: from host64.cybernetics.com ([98.174.209.230]:1945 "EHLO mail.cybernetics.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759074AbZBXUwh (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:37 -0500 Message-ID: <49A45E13.80608@cybernetics.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:35 -0500 From: Tony Battersby User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Eric Dumazet , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] [2.6.29] epoll: fix for epoll_wait sometimes returning events on closed fds References: <49A42DDE.8060605@cybernetics.com> <49A4387D.2020801@cosmosbay.com> <49A43FF0.2070703@cybernetics.com> <49A44FEB.6000803@cosmosbay.com> <49A45A48.6020805@cybernetics.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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