Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 28 2008 - 15:09:22 EST


Tejun Heo wrote:

Ah.... funky. If this retry thing is too repulsive, I guess the best
alternative would be directly accessing caller's memory as Miklos suggested.


Be careful -- there are some serious dragons there in the presence of multiple threads.

-hpa
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