Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio

From: Ivo van Doorn
Date: Sun Dec 03 2006 - 17:05:53 EST


On Sunday 03 December 2006 20:20, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> this open_count thing smells fishy to me; what are the locking rules for
> it? What guarantees that the readers of it don't get the value changed
> underneath them between looking at the value and doing whatever action
> depends on it's value ?

Good point, a race condition could indeed occur in the only reader
that sends the signal to the userspace through the input device.
I'll fix this immediately.

Thanks,

Ivo
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