[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] fix file locking crash on linux

[Christopher Allen Wing]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

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> On Friday, February 09, 2007 12:35:26 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
> <shadow@dementia.org> wrote:
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>> No, the one in the message this message was a followup to. You should go
>> read it.
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> Well, as I already explained to you, it wasn't a followup to anything.

I'm sorry about that.  I was not practicing good email etiquette.

> That said, of course it doesn't mean we shouldn't keep looking at this and 
> either convince ourselves that Chris's patch is correct or else come up with 
> something else.

There's an alternative patch which preserves the make-copy-of-structure 
behavior in the original message (and in RT #53457).  Both approaches rely 
upon knowledge of kernel-internal behavior, though.


-Chris
wingc@engin.umich.edu