Borzenkov Andrey writes:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I wanted to show the recent discussion about the race condition in devfs
> > to Christoph Hellwig, who is also aware of some race condition in devfs
> > (http://lwn.net/Articles/31952/), but I cannot find the archives of the
> > mailing list.
> >
> > The link from
> > http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html to
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/devfs/archive/ doesn't work (page not found).
> >
>
> the archives are dead for a long time. I posted the full details including
> patch on lkml:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105233420622539&w=2
>
> you can refer to this post. I appreciate if you keep me informed.
>
> BTW I checked 2.5 and Devfs code in question is the same. Unless locking
> rules changed substantially (not yet checked) it means the same race
> condition.
>
> What people think about moving the project to public place like
> sourceforge? I have patch for devfsd moutils/module-init-tools
> interoperability (will post later), some modules.devfs cleanups but
> how can update(s) be made available?
No, I haven't given up maintenance. Let me get my life back in order
and patches will start flowing again.
Regards,
Richard....
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