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Subject: Re: bug in scsi.c
To: tigran@veritas.com (Tigran Aivazian)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:11:19 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > A proper way to release the references to resources is to call daemonize()
> > > function from within the kernel thread function, which calls
> > > exit_fs()/exit_files() internally.
> > 
> > Nearly correct, the daemonize function does NOT call exit_files.
> 
> I do not post messages to linux-kernel without checking the facts
> first. Read the daemonize() function and see for yourself that you are
> wrong.

Andreas is looking at a slightly older kernel, and was right for that. Every
caller to daemonize either then did the file stuff or needed to and forgot
so I fixed daemonize

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