Re: [patch] inotify: locking

[Robert Love]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:22 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:

> Okay, this is my first kernel project so I didn't know/follow all of the
> rules, I admit it is a bit of a mishmash.

Heh, none of these issues were big, and everything else was fine.

> Yes, AFAIK the only places where we rely on the dev not going away are
> when we are handling a request from user space. As long as VFS
> operations are serialized I don't think we have to worry about that.

You can see what locks and serialization the VFS uses in
Documentation/filesystems/Locking

	Robert Love


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