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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX
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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:20:23 +0200

> And is anyone working on a better patch?

I have no idea.

> Those patches aren't "bad" in the correctness sense.  So IMO any one
> of them is better, than having that bug in there.

You're adding a very serious performance regression, which is
about as bad as the bug itself.

It can wait for a more appropriate fix.