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Re: [Freestandards-ldps] Re: LDPS 0.91 - even closer to release



Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > events (signals etc.) you don't need any additional locking neither,
> > because the normal locking of the task (grabbing exit_sem, task list lock etc.)
> > is enough.
> 
> no. People assume it cant change during a syscall

There is nothing I could find in Single Unix nor in POSIX that requires that.

Who assumes that ? And if they do, do they assume the current per-thread
cred model too?

-Andi



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