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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/44] ldisc patchset
From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:25 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>> Its not too late to run away from it and preserve your sanity (as well
>> as that of the next person working on the tty layer :)
>
> The long-term plan is to migrate it to lib so it won't be a maintenance
> burden to tty.

That only moves the problem though, and makes sense only if we know of
another place where an unfair rwsem is desired...

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.