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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing BKL in sys_chroot() for 2.6
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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       Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
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Thanks for the clarification.

Phy


--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Phy Prabab wrote:
> >  
> > > see what the BKL 
> > 
> > What does BKL stand for?
> 
> "big kernel lock" aka the traditional global kernel
> lock that these days 
> is not actually used that much any more. When you
> see "lock_kernel()", 
> "unlock_kernel()", that's the BKL.
> 
> 		Linus
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