From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@metabyte.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:04:09 -0700 (PDT)
Why was the lock necessary? From what race scenario do we protect
ourselves here?
lock_kernel was removed from the VFS sys_close(), and Alexander
Viro just put lock_kernel in any release() method which wasn't
%100 obvious to him, that's all.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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