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Re: Race-condition for device drivers etc.



In article <9408291004.AA14008@math.uni-muenster.de> you write:

>|> hmm sounds useful.  could this also be used to fix the /dev
>|>unlink-open-file bug?
>|>
>Hmm, I was not reading the mailing list so carefully during the last
>time, could you explain that a little bit more? :)

well open a /dev/something, unlink it, and after that IO on the fd
calls into never-land...  look for BUG: in biosfs.c :)

 greetings
	Juergen