Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751814AbWIHGjX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 02:39:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751812AbWIHGjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 02:39:22 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:9345 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751814AbWIHGjU (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 02:39:20 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jean Delvare , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc-readdir-race-fix-take-3-fix-3 References: <20060825182943.697d9d81.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <200609061101.11544.jdelvare@suse.de> <200609062312.57774.jdelvare@suse.de> <20060906222556.GA168@oleg> <20060906223838.GA198@oleg> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:38:02 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060906223838.GA198@oleg> (Oleg Nesterov's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2006 02:38:38 +0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Length: 525 Lines: 18 Ok. While we are on the topic of races in readdir in /proc. I just wanted to note that I believe thread groups have the same potential problem. I don't think it is severe enough to cause any real world problems. But it makes sense to note it. Something to think about. Eric - 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/