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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
