May 25, 2012
1:44 p.m.
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
reading a course outline and there's a reference to "lockless ioctls". no idea what that is, and google doesn't make it any clearer:
http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22lockless+ioctl%22&oq=%22lock...
did such a thing ever exist?
All ioctls are unlocked, now that the BKL is gone. You can read more about it, including relevant lwn links, at [1]. [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4711/what-is-the-difference-between-... HTH, Vlad