Last night I wrote ...
mec> Also, system_utsname is used in a bunch of other places. These places
mec> look like they actually read or write it:
And Linus wrote back ...
god> Not fixed. Anybody want to send me a patch for some of these (although
god> most are just backwards compatibility as far as I can tell: it might even
god> be time to remove some of it)?
I wrote most of the changes, but I haven't compiled it yet. I have a
raw diff here:
<ftp://ftp.shout.net/pub/users/mec/experimental/utsname-lock.diff>
I'm stumped by some code in fs/lockd/clntproc.c that stores pointers
to sys_utsname.
It's very tedious putting in all those semaphore calls!
Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"
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