Re: [PATCH] thread wakeup fix for 2.4.0-test7

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 05:17:23 EDT

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    > Linus wrote:
    > > My claim is that a user program that does a close() on a file that is in
    > > use is inherently racy. Is that so hard to understand?
    >
    > Unfortunately, Java programs do this a lot, as it's the
    > only reliable way to break a thread out of a blocking I/O call
    > there.

    Then either the Java program is broken and its not a portable java guarantee
    or the java runtime is broken and assumes things that are not guaranteed by
    the underlying environment

    >

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