Re: [RFC, PATCH] locks: remove posix deadlock detection

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:38:14 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:38:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > It doesn't require the system to detect it, only mandate what to return
> > > if it does detect it.
> > 
> > We should be detecting at least the obvious case.
> 
> What is the obvious case?  A task that has never called clone()?

Simple AB BA I would have thought obvious. Clone as has been said several
times now is irrelevant as the standard is about *processes* [in the SuS
sense]
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