From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:49:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:49:09 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:64261 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:48:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:48:56 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Alan Cox Cc: Andi Kleen , Trond Myklebust , Daniel Phillips , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug Message-ID: <20010110204856.A5443@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010110204308.A5303@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:48:04PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:48:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > As the thread started it's not only only needed for pthreads, but also for NFS > > and setuid (actually NFS already implements it privately), and probably other network > > file systems too. So it's far from being only a "bad standard corner case". > > I wonder how Linux 2.2 worked, that doesnt have them. Now if its a clean way > of sorting out a pile of other things and it does pthreads as a side effect Linux 2.2 setuid in nfs never worked quite like traditional Unix, and there were lots of reports because users were regularly rediscovering it. I think the nfs patches merged in 2.2.18 fixed it (?) > I've no problem, but arguing for it because of a tiny pthreads corner case > is coming from the wrong end I'm not so sure the thread corner case is that tiny. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/