From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752035AbYDHIGJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:06:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753287AbYDHIFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:05:51 -0400 Received: from smtp2.it.da.ut.ee ([193.40.5.67]:51834 "EHLO smtp2.it.da.ut.ee" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147AbYDHIFu (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:05:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:05:47 +0300 (EEST) From: Meelis Roos To: Linux Kernel list Subject: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Robertson analyzes the behaviour of different operating systems' 64-bit file offset implementation and concludes that on 32-bit machines, Linux and Solaris lack any locking to keep the two 32-bit halves in sync and this could cause rare file offset corruption. http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/21014.html -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)