linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

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Message-ID: <20090729070110.GA4311@skywalker>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:31:53 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:26:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > So does this work for everyone? I haven't tested it yet myself, but this 
> > is the patch that "looks" right.
> 
> This thing (on top of current -git) seems to pass Ogawa's tests at least 
> on my machine (both on SMP, and when the processes are limited to just a 
> single CPU).
> 
> Of course, since he wrote both the patch _and_ the tests, that doesn't 
> come as a huge surprise - you'd expect Ogawa's patch to fix the testcase 
> he has.
> 
> I use neither kdesu nor GNU emacs, so people who see the problem should 
> test this patch, and maybe we can put _this_ particular issue behind us.
> 

The patch also fix the "compile in emacs" bug.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13815

-aneesh
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