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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: more devfs fun (Piled Higher and Deeper)
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Alexander Viro writes:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> > > BTW, new code still has both aforementioned races - detaching
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > entries from the tree doesn't help with that.
> > 
> > Which "both"? You sent quite a few messages, listing more than two
> > races. I'm still wading through the list.
> 
> Sorry - trimmed more than I should have.  Ones mentioned in the
> message you were replying to - unregister() on parent vs. mknod() or
> unlink().

Ah, those. Next patch (just released) cleans that up a bit more. This
stuff is still a work in progress.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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