Re: Commit 0be0ee71 ("fs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()") breaking userspace
From: Kenneth R. Crudup
Date: Tue Nov 26 2019 - 07:46:45 EST
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> P.S. even though I was put into cc there, somehow I did not received any
> notification email for commits d8e464ecc17b (vfs: mark pipes and sockets as
> stream-like file descriptors) and 0be0ee71816b (vfs: properly and
> reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()).
That's my fault; the CC: list for those commits was pretty long and I was
worried about it appearing like SPAMming anyone who'd signed off on it, so
I'd punted and sent it to Linus and the LKML only.
-Kenny
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Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Silicon Valley