Re: 00_drop-broken-flock-account-1

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 27 May 2003 23:24:36 +0200


On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:16:18AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is this patch suitable for mainline inclusion?
>
> per-task flock accounting was broken across tasks sharing the same
> files. Removed temporarly. This should fix sendmail. If somebody
> wanted to bypass the rlimit he needed simply to use fcntl instead
> so it's not going to make much difference for 2.4. Fix from
> Matthew Wilcox.

yes, and as I wrote above the rlimit was trivial anyways to bypass with fcntl.

Andrea
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