Re: Updated stacker.c (the real one, ignore the last post)

From: Greg KH (gregat_private)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 21:32:51 PDT

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    On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:09:04AM -0400, dwheelerat_private wrote:
> 
> I'm really trying to NOT lock except where necessary.
> Assuming that writing a pointer is atomic,

Not always true on some platforms, I'm afraid :(
I really think you are going to need to use locks.  Seth mentiond RCU,
but that isn't in the kernel yet.  A semaphore is probably going to be
necessary.

greg k-h
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