[ On Tuesday, October 17, 2000 at 00:42:45 (-0400), Greg A. Woods wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Time to fix a 25 year old misdesign
>
> Keep in mind that the SIGIO issue can be dealt with by simply requiring
> drivers that support it to always force exclusive access (or to prevent
> process which did not successfully request and receive exclusive access
> to never enable async-IO.

Hmmm.....  oops... scratch that...

You'd have to force close-on-fork too....

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