Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:25:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:25:09 -0500 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:16813 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:25:03 -0500 From: Christoph Rohland To: Alan Cox Cc: cowboy@vnet.ibm.com (Richard A Nelson), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10 In-Reply-To: Organisation: SAP LinuxLab Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:29:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> No, I do not think that it's minor. We had to bring down running >> application servers to be able to start another one, because the >> new one couldn't create or attach the systemwide os-monitoring >> segment and thus refused to start. That's very bad behaviour. > > Well I'll take corrected fixes, but Im not going to hold up a release for it Yes, I understand that. But I never got any note that my fix is broken and I still do not understand what's the concern. We are holding the BKL while doing this. And if shm_close does not get called with it we should probably acquire it. Greetings Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/