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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: FIFO files
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:17:21 +0400
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To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Hello!

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:00:25PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Yes, but if I understood Cyrille correctly, her/his(?) needs should be
> completely satisfied by sparse files.
> One process can append records at the end, and one other process can read
> records from the beginning of the file, marking the read data empty. The

Hm, I am sorry, but this part is unclear.
I do not remember any API to create holes in existing files in place of already
present data.

Bye,
    Oleg