Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware

From: Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 09:16:16 EST

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Hi,

Rui Sousa:
> The changes you made to some of the sound drivers seem to imply
> it's possible to enter release()/mmap() before open() returns, is
> this right?
>
No. Your code doesn't have a file descriptor before open() returns.
Therefore it can't do anything with the file.

Liekwise, release() is called when there's no other reference to
the file descriptor. This is protected by the lock in the processes'
file struct.

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