Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Object creation with a specified id

From: Nick Andrew
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 23:07:01 EST


On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:51:29PM +0200, Nadia.Derbey@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> . echo "LONG XX" > /proc/self/next_id
> next object to be created will have an id set to XX
> . echo "LONG<n> X0 ... X<n-1>" > /proc/self/next_id
> next object to be created will have its ids set to XX0, ... X<n-1>
> This is particularly useful for processes that may have several ids if
> they belong to nested namespaces.

How do you handle race conditions, i.e. you specify the ID for the
next object to be created, and then some other thread goes and creates
an object before your thread creates one?

Nick.
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