Re: double lock on socket

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:36:05 +0100


In linux.dev.kernel, article <m0uOZir-23AqtsC@thune>,
mcastle@umr.edu (Mike Castle) writes:
>
> I'm still a bit confused on how a process accessing the network,
> that has been paged out, could cause this scenario....
>
The call to memcpy_toiovec(), for instance, might cause a page fault. While
the fault is served, another process uses the same socket to write
something.

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