Re: [PATCH 22/29] sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-31 04:45:02
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Lucian Adrian Grijincu [off-list ref] writes:
Why do you only check the given @set after creating the new dir. Why not the parent dir too?
That is a race and a minor bug. Somehow I had convinced myself that either it didn't matter or that it would be hard to deal with, but that doesn't hold up. Oops. Thankfully the final version using links does not have this race/bug. Eric