On Tue, 2005-22-11 at 05:20 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > jamal wrote:
> > My point is: it clearly a bigger issue in a lot of places in the net > > code - almost all ipv4 syctls suffer from this issue then. > > Well, you have to check the code that uses them to see if it is > a problem. In this case it is. What I am worried about is that it seems to be quiet a few other things in the net code may be affected by a similar issue. i.e of the form a sysctlX i just read depending on sysctlY or sysctlX itself a few lines later either of which may change; You do make a valid arguement however - and regardless it wont harm to assume the worst. > > It will be tricky to change actually. > > It should be easy, both my and Thomas's patch did it. Look > at the patch I sent you (do_promote). I have to take off - I will do this tommorow and will work with Brian to test. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
