linux-kernel - Re: BUG: lock held when returning to user space

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Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:05:43 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>,
	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>, a.zummo@...ertech.it,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: BUG: lock held when returning to user space

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:09:29 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> 
> 
> Right, the fd could be transferred using unix sockets or fork(). That
> would indeed seriously break a mutex.
>


or just multi-threaded app..
 
> 


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