The following reply was made to PR kern/35351; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: e@murder.org
Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/35351 (Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern)
Date: Sun,  8 Apr 2007 02:02:36 +0900 (JST)

 > YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > 
 > > the lack of locking in fileassoc.  are you kidding?
 > >
 > > 
 > > as you know, veriexec is not only user of fileassoc.
 > > do you mean you have investigated all of users and know fileassoc
 > > doesn't need to have locking on netbsd-4?  otherwise, why do you claim
 > > it isn't a problem?  to me, these users seem to work basically independently,
 > > so i think nothing serializes users and thus fileassoc itself needs to
 > > have locking internally.
 > > am i missing something obvious?  (i guess i am, given that you are
 > > an author of all of these fileassoc users.)
 > 
 > (interesting use of the word "all". :)
 
 ?  sorry, i don't understand what you mean.
 
 > besides veriexec there's only segvguard, for which the implementation
 > needs to change - it's unsafe even if locking was in place. I pointed
 > this out at least two times, and this is why it's disabled by default.
 > 
 > -e.
 
 is there a PR?
 
 does veriexec serialize calls to fileassoc?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi