On Wednesday 01 November 2000 17:09, you wrote: > > Is the case of multithreaded applications really worth that effort ? > > I could very easily extend the semaphore to the ioctl handlers. > > But I have cases where read and ioctl in parallel makes sense. Basically > you cant fix this outside the drivers. OK, I see. A patch to fix the open race only will be send to Linus. Regards Oliver
