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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:38:03 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who's job is it to avoid the race condition between when
> this function takes the strlen() and the other processor makes it a longer
> string before we return from kmalloc() and do the strcpy()?

The caller's.