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pty: Narrow the race on ldisc locking
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:27:29 +0000 (16:27 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:24:00 +0000 (11:24 -0700)
commitcbcb6d66af4c6169ce1c2d01a3ab345f04b8359d
treed01d804ed6b35df3614f22c42baee719eb6dfeb7tree | snapshot
parentb231125af7811a2f68c455d3bda95ac170ee4fa6commit | diff
pty: Narrow the race on ldisc locking

The pty code has always been buggy on its ldisc handling. The recent
changes made the window for the race much bigger. Pending fixing it
properly which is not at all trivial, at least make the race small again so
we don't disrupt other dev work.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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