Re: RFC: PPP over X

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, jamal wrote:
> 
> That still leaves a race where I can grab your channel.  Actually it would
> probably be better to say that only root can grab a channel.

Would there still be a race if multiple root processes tried to grab the
channel?

>> Backporting sounds like a huge pain to me. And would this be a separate
>> patch or part of the kernel proper? 2.2 is considered to be a stable
>> release.

>It wouldn't be that much of a pain, I actually developed it under 2.2 for
>a while before 2.3 came along.

Ok, but then do we want this to be part of 2.2?


cheers
jamal