[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Object creation with a specified id

[Nadia Derbey]

Nick Andrew wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:51:29PM +0200, Nadia.Derbey at bull.net wrote:
> 
>>   . echo "LONG XX" > /proc/self/next_id
>>     next object to be created will have an id set to XX
>>   . echo "LONG<n> X0 ... X<n-1>" > /proc/self/next_id
>>     next object to be created will have its ids set to XX0, ... X<n-1>
>>     This is particularly useful for processes that may have several ids if
>>     they belong to nested namespaces.
> 
> 
> How do you handle race conditions, i.e. you specify the ID for the
> next object to be created, and then some other thread goes and creates
> an object before your thread creates one?
> 
> Nick.

OK, race problem between threads is fixed. Thanks for finding the issue!

The new patch series is coming next.

Regards,
Nadia

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