Re: tty's use of file_list_lock and file_move

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 05:52:56 EST


Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 22:16 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl:
> I'm not looking for performance gains, I'm looking more to isolate the
> tty code down to a minimal set of interactions with the rest of the
> kernel. RIght now it is all intertwined.

That might be tricky given that hangup and SAK have to directly interact
with the VFS locking.

Alan
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