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Re: interruptible_sleep_on() vs wait_event_interruptible()

> and the race can happen between the test if the process should sleep and 
> actually going to sleep?

yup

and the api is fundamentally broken because you can't do proper locking
for this (other than BKL-with-irqs-off, which isn't allowed in 2.6).



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