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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make fdescfs MPSAFE
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Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To be able to better understand VFS and locking in general, I started making
> fdescfs MPSAFE. I'm not experienced with any of these things, so there might be
> some errors, although I've looked through much VFS code and code for other FS
> like nullfs. I've tested it by running two pthreads on the same fd, and that seamt
> to work, but there might be other cases where it will fail.
> 
> Patch is attached.


I guess this never went anywhere?  Looked like good work to me, but I 
didn't test it much.  Did anyone see any issues with the patches?

Eric