linux-kernel - Re: pipe

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Message-ID: <20130312195647.GB2186@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:56:47 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pipe_release oops.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:43:53PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
 > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:31:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 
 > > Probably not missing anything subtle. I think all of this code is very
 > > old, and related to previous /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> escapades. And the
 > > semantics for those files were in flux some time long long ago (the
 > > whole "dup vs new struct file" issue), it's all just duct-tape, I
 > > think.
 > 
 > Umm...  How about the following, then?  I think it makes the whole thing
 > simpler and saner...  NOTE: this got only a light beating and we'd
 > just seen an example of long-standing breakage in that area; I'd really
 > like to see it tortured by Dave's scripts before it gets merged into
 > mainline.

I can do that.  I'll holler if I see anything that looks out of place.

	Dave

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