On Wednesday 26 March 2003 21:20, Davide Libenzi wrote:
Hi Davide,
> This fixes a bug that might happen having a thread doing epoll_wait() with
> another thread doing epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL) and close(). The fast check
> inside eventpoll_release() is good to not effect performace of code not
> using epoll, but it requires get_file() to be called ( that can be avoided
> by dropping the fast check ). I opted to keep the fast check and to have
> epoll to call get_file() before the event send loop. I tested it on UP and
> 2SMP with a bug-exploiting program provided by @pivia.com ( thx to them )
> and it looks fine. I also update the 2.4.20 epoll patch with this fix :
>
> http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll-lt-2.4.20-0.5.diff
so this is v0.63?
ciao, Marc
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