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Message-ID: <20071028234457.0011d8b7@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:44:57 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"George G. Davis" <gdavis@...sta.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] locks: remove posix deadlock detection
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:38:14 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:38:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > It doesn't require the system to detect it, only mandate what to return
> > > if it does detect it.
> >
> > We should be detecting at least the obvious case.
>
> What is the obvious case? A task that has never called clone()?
Simple AB BA I would have thought obvious. Clone as has been said several
times now is irrelevant as the standard is about *processes* [in the SuS
sense]
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