From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: question on SMP and read()/write()
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:31:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00102816313507.00773@ghanima> (raw)
Hi,
I've noticed that sys_read() and sys_write() don't grab the big kernel lock.
As file descriptors may be shared, must device drivers provide SMP safe
read() and write() methods ?
TIA
Oliver
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2000-10-28 14:31 Oliver Neukum [this message]
2000-10-28 16:19 ` question on SMP and read()/write() Alan Cox
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2000-10-28 15:42 ` Oliver Neukum
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