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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:31:24 -0500
From: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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Subject: Re: 3.2-STABLE hangs after several hours ...
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On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:28:47AM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 
> Well it still has `something' to do with those changes as all stable
> kernels from before that commit (Jul 28) never showed the bug (at least
> for me), and everything after that date did...  Now as to WHY this
> is so, well, *shrug*.  especially as the fixed atomic.h does indeed
> appear to be the `real' fix for it...
> 

That sometimes happens with race conditions.  In any case, I've now
committed the patch to -STABLE.

Thanks for your detailed report.

Alan


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