Re: [PATCH][2.1.71] BSD revoke() syscall

[Alan Cox]

> You really want to do the close as part of the revoke, and then make the
> revoke'd close be pretty much a no-op.  (See the tty code, which does
> something a bit more complex, but it's the same basic idea.)
> 
> The reason for this is because you need to get the ref-counting right so
> that the semantics with close() lowering DTR, etc. still apply even
> though there are revoke'd file descriptors hanging around.  (Similar

You've just solved the races sort of too

	while(REFERENCES_LEFT(fp))
		sleep_on(fp->something)

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