tech-kern: Re: Pulling simple syscalls out from the giant lock

Subject: Re: Pulling simple syscalls out from the giant lock
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/07/2005 19:43:11

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Salut,

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:43:56PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > get*gid?
> > get*uid?
>=20
> While another thread is doing set*[gu]id ?

Shouldn't the operation be rather atomic? Otherwise - again, rwlocks would
be great.

				Tonnerre

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