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To: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 17 Sep 2001 09:47:42 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

     > Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:
    >> Boots and panics immediately "trying to kill init"

     > Backout the changes to fs/locks.c or the patch of Trond :

     > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100019824200351&w=2

Huh? WTF does a patch to the locking code have to do with init?

That particular code is only called if something closes a file on
which POSIX locks are applied. Init doesn't use locking.
The patch *is* required in Alan's tree. Without it, 2 processes that
lock the same file can race and corrupt the i_flock list.

Cheers,
   Trond