Much clearer explanation

Much clearer explanation

Posted May 7, 2008 19:51 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: Nastiness explained (sort of) by viro
Parent article: Stable kernel updates (security fix)

Thank you, sir! Your explanation makes so much more sense than my silly melodramatic version above.

This issue highlights one of the critical issues of multi-processor kernel programming--it's easier to write multi-threaded userspace code, but the buck stops at the kernel with respect to maintaining absolute thread safety.

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