Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2004-01-06

Re: [PATCH] VT locking

From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2004-01-06 12:15:13
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Hi!
The VT code is currently, it seems, full of races, it basically doesn't
do any locking... This patch is definitely not fixing everything,
but at
And the races bite, BTW. For years I was seeing weird stuff like
console output on blanked console if scroll happened at approximately
same time as blank. It was hard to reproduce reliably, through.
								Pavel

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